Senior PostgreSQL DBA - High Availability & Security

Showtime Consulting Pty Ltd; Australian Capital Territory; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting, a leading provider of Shielded Cloud and Digital Solutions across Australia and New Zealand, is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator.

This hands-on role covers the full database lifecycle, from implementation to sustainment, with responsibility for high availability, backup and DR, performance tuning, patching and upgrades. You will work with DevOps to automate deployments in a secure, mission-critical environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PostgreSQL database administration in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing, deploying and managing highly available PostgreSQL clusters.
• Knowledge of database performance tuning, backup and disaster recovery strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain enterprise PostgreSQL database clusters.
• Implement high availability, backup, recovery and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Monitor database health and proactively optimise PostgreSQL environments.
• Support migrations, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to automate database deployment and operational processes.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures and technical documentation.

Skills

PostgreSQL

HA/DR

Performance tuning

Automation

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Showtime Consulting, a leading provider of Shielded Cloud and Digital Solutions across Australia and New Zealand, is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator.

This hands-on role covers the full database lifecycle, from implementation to sustainment, with responsibility for high availability, backup and DR, performance tuning, patching and upgrades. You will work with DevOps to automate deployments in a secure, mission-critical environment.