Senior PostgreSQL DBA - Onsite Ballarat, HA & Migrations

Green Light; Ballarat; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Green Light Australia seeks a skilled Database Consultant (PostgreSQL) to maintain and optimise production databases from its Ballarat regional office. This permanent onsite role focuses on data integrity, performance, and reliability across production environments.

The successful candidate will design and implement PostgreSQL high availability, disaster recovery, replication, backups, and security, while enhancing data migration efforts and data lifecycle policies.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years’ experience in Enterprise Database Administration, Development, or Data Architecture.
• Experience migrating mission-critical databases from on-premises to the cloud.
• Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals and high availability / disaster recovery design.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute data lifecycle policies and procedures.
• Ensure data currency, availability, and protection from loss.
• Apply data updates, backups, migrations, warehousing, replication, redundancy, and security.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Database Administration

Data Migration

High Availability

PostgreSQL Replication

UNIX/Linux

Security Management

Monitoring Tools

Tools

pg_dump

pg_restore

psql

pg_stat_statements

Job description

Green Light Australia seeks a skilled Database Consultant (PostgreSQL) to maintain and optimise production databases from its Ballarat regional office. This permanent onsite role focuses on data integrity, performance, and reliability across production environments.

The successful candidate will design and implement PostgreSQL high availability, disaster recovery, replication, backups, and security, while enhancing data migration efforts and data lifecycle policies.