Cloud PostgreSQL DBA – Production & DR

BNP Paribas Personal Finance; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Contributory pension scheme

Life insurance

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday

Discounts on dining out, cinema, days/

Monthly awards

Job summary

BNP Paribas Personal Finance is seeking a PostgreSQL specialist to support and improve in-house and third-party PostgreSQL Server solutions in a cloud environment. You will join a small team and help expand capabilities as the business grows.

This role includes migrating from on-premise SQL Server to PostgreSQL in the cloud, ensuring performance, security and alignment with IT governance, and contributing to disaster recovery planning and testing.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of relational database design fundamentals.
• Understanding of continuity management including backups, incident, problem, change and capacity management.
• Experience with PostgreSQL 15 and production database administration.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain the PostgreSQL estate in a cloud environment.
• Provide PostgreSQL expertise to implement solutions meeting standards and best practices.
• Assist migration from on-premise SQL Server to PostgreSQL in cloud.
• Ensure optimal database performance via monitoring, tuning and optimisation.
• Maintain database security in line with policies.
• Contribute to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.

Skills

Relational database design

Database components

Continuity Mgmt

HA and DR

Database best practices

Production DB installation

PostgreSQL 15

Service oriented

Job description

BNP Paribas Personal Finance is seeking a PostgreSQL specialist to support and improve in-house and third-party PostgreSQL Server solutions in a cloud environment. You will join a small team and help expand capabilities as the business grows.

This role includes migrating from on-premise SQL Server to PostgreSQL in the cloud, ensuring performance, security and alignment with IT governance, and contributing to disaster recovery planning and testing.