Senior PostgreSQL Engineer — Hybrid & Mentorship Lead

FinXL IT Professional Services; The Hills Shire Council; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FinXL IT Professional Services is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our Database Practice and support a leading banking client on a 12+ month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on enterprise PostgreSQL architecture, DevOps automation, and mentoring a DBA team to PostgreSQL self-sufficiency.

The role involves capacity planning, governance, and executive reporting to ensure long-term platform health, with a hybrid office presence in Sydney CBD and Norwest.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in database administration; enterprise PostgreSQL focus.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL architecture, performance tuning, and security.
• Experience building and maintaining HA, DR, replication, and backups.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy PostgreSQL environments aligned with banking standards.
• Migrate platforms, upgrade versions, and optimize performance.
• Design and implement HA, DR, replication, and backup strategies.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Database administration

High Availability

CI/CD scripting

Training/mentoring

Kubernetes

Terraform

Performance tuning

Tools

Bash

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

FinXL IT Professional Services is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join our Database Practice and support a leading banking client on a 12+ month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on enterprise PostgreSQL architecture, DevOps automation, and mentoring a DBA team to PostgreSQL self-sufficiency.

The role involves capacity planning, governance, and executive reporting to ensure long-term platform health, with a hybrid office presence in Sydney CBD and Norwest.