Cloud-Native PostgreSQL DBA — Remote & Scalable

DrFirst; France; A distancia; EUR 116.000 - 134.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

401K with company match

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA contribution

Paid time off 18 days + holidays

Remote-First company

Descripción de la vacante

DrFirst is seeking a Cloud Native PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. The role focuses on PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora, automation, and a data-driven, event-driven architecture across multi-account environments.

You will optimize, scale, and secure the database stack, collaborate with DevOps and application engineering, and drive backup, DR, and high-availability strategies in a remote-first setup.

Formación

• 4 to 7 years of hands on experience as a PostgreSQL Database Administrator in cloud environments.
• Strong production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and root cause analysis.
• Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including point in time recovery and high availability configurations.
• Experience with database security, user management, IAM integration, and access controls.
• Programming skills in Python and shell scripting for automation.
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, Systems Manager, IAM, and Secrets Manager.
• Conceptual familiarity with modern persistence patterns: Kafka, Kinesis, Redis/ElastiCache, and event driven data flow.

Responsabilidades

• Manage daily operations of PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora across multiple accounts and environments.
• Own database setup, configuration, parameter tuning, and deployment using cloud native patterns.
• Execute upgrades, patches, and version migrations with minimal downtime using blue/green and rolling deployment strategies.
• Monitor database health, performance, and capacity using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Operate PostgreSQL as the system of record inside an event-driven architecture and collaborate on data flow from upstream sources.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for database schema changes and infrastructure deployments.

Conocimientos

PostgreSQL

AWS

Python

Shell scripting

SQL

Performance tuning

Backup & recovery

IAM integration

Monitoring

Educación

Bachelor's degree (related field)

Herramientas

Kafka

Kinesis

Redis

ElastiCache

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline

Descripción del empleo

DrFirst is seeking a Cloud Native PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. The role focuses on PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora, automation, and a data-driven, event-driven architecture across multi-account environments.

You will optimize, scale, and secure the database stack, collaborate with DevOps and application engineering, and drive backup, DR, and high-availability strategies in a remote-first setup.