Remote Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Cloud-Native Data Ops

DrFirst; France; Remote; EUR 116,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

Health insurance (medical/dental/vison

401K with employer match

HSA

Disability insurance

PTO

EAP

Education funds

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

DrFirst is seeking a cloud native Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. You will own and optimize PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora, oversee deployment, upgrades, and disaster recovery in a complex, event-driven data ecosystem.

You will collaborate with DevOps and application engineers to ensure reliable data flows from prescribers, pharmacies, and EHRs, while building automation and CI/CD pipelines that reduce toil and improve resilience.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience in cloud environments.
• Strong production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and RCA.
• Experience with backup/recovery, PITR, and high availability configurations.
• Automation mindset using Python and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, Redis/ElastiCache, and event-driven data flow.
• Knowledge of IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3 within AWS.
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Operate PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora across multiple accounts and envs.
• Configure, tune, and deploy databases using cloud-native patterns.
• Perform upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime (blue/green).
• Monitor health and capacity using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Grafana.
• Support data flow from upstream sources to PostgreSQL and back to consumers.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams on persistence strategies.
• Develop automation for provisioning, backups, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in on-call rotation and document runbooks.

Skills

PostgreSQL DBA

AWS

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Performance tuning

SQL proficiency

Problem solving

Documentation

On-call readiness

CI/CD basics

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Redis/ElastiCache

Terraform/CloudFormation

Jenkins/GitLab CI

AWS RDS/Aurora

OpenSearch

Job description

DrFirst is seeking a cloud native Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. You will own and optimize PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora, oversee deployment, upgrades, and disaster recovery in a complex, event-driven data ecosystem.

You will collaborate with DevOps and application engineers to ensure reliable data flows from prescribers, pharmacies, and EHRs, while building automation and CI/CD pipelines that reduce toil and improve resilience.