PostgreSQL DBA – Secure Cloud & Mission-Critical Ops

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL DBA to support critical database platforms in a secure enterprise environment in Australia. The role focuses on administration, optimization, security, and operational support across production environments.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, applications, and engineering teams to ensure reliability, availability, performance, and compliance with standards. Experience in defence/government contexts is highly regarded.

Qualifications

• Proven PostgreSQL database administration experience.
• Experience supporting production database environments.
• Strong knowledge of backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience implementing and managing database security controls.
• Experience supporting highly available and business-critical database platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL database environments.
• Monitor and tune database performance.
• Implement and maintain backup, recovery, and DR processes.
• Ensure database security and access controls.
• Support production database operations, upgrades, patching, and maintenance.
• Troubleshoot incidents and performance issues.
• Assist with capacity planning and health monitoring.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams.
• Develop and maintain database documentation and standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Production database support

Performance monitoring

Backup and DR

Security controls

Secure environments experience

Stakeholder engagement

Troubleshooting

Job description

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL DBA to support critical database platforms in a secure enterprise environment in Australia. The role focuses on administration, optimization, security, and operational support across production environments.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, applications, and engineering teams to ensure reliability, availability, performance, and compliance with standards. Experience in defence/government contexts is highly regarded.