Senior PostgreSQL DBA | Linux & High Availability

Accenture Australia; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Ballarat is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join our Infrastructure Managed Services team. You will manage PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments, optimise performance, and implement backup, recovery, and high-availability strategies across Linux platforms.

Based in Ballarat with a hybrid work arrangement, you will collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable database solutions for our Australian clients.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of database administration experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration experience including replication and vacuuming.
• Solid Linux administration across RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu with scripting.
• MS SQL Server administration including Always On, backups and SQL Server Agent.
• Experience with PostgreSQL high-availability technologies (Patroni, repmgr, pgPool).
• Strong SQL query-writing skills and EXPLAIN plan analysis.
• Experience with backup tools pgBackRest, pg_dump or Barman.
• ITIL-based service management environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch and administer PostgreSQL environments.
• Monitor performance and resolve bottlenecks and capacity issues.
• Design and manage backup and recovery strategies aligned with RPO/RTO.
• Administer Linux systems supporting database workloads and security hardening.
• Provide Level 2/3 support for PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server incidents.
• Manage database security, user access, roles and auditing.
• Support SQL Server environments across instance administration, patching and backups.
• Contribute to database migration and consolidation projects.
• Maintain database documentation, schemas and runbooks.
• Collaborate with application/infrastructure teams on design and integration.
• Contribute to disaster-recovery planning and testing.

Skills

Five to ten years database experience

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

Linux

Microsoft SQL Server

Patroni

repmgr

pgPool

pgBackRest

pg_dump

Barman

Job description

Accenture Ballarat is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join our Infrastructure Managed Services team. You will manage PostgreSQL and SQL Server environments, optimise performance, and implement backup, recovery, and high-availability strategies across Linux platforms.

Based in Ballarat with a hybrid work arrangement, you will collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable database solutions for our Australian clients.