PostgreSQL Platform Lead & Modernisation DBA

Uniting Ambition; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid work

Career development

Cloud & DevOps exposure

Job summary

Uniting Ambition is seeking a hands-on PostgreSQL Database Administrator to own the PostgreSQL estate as part of a major platform modernisation. The role blends support, project work and architectural input across a growing database platform with some Oracle work in a mixed estate.

You’ll improve replication, HA, backups and DR while contributing to architecture, standards and best practices. UK-based with remote/hybrid setup and occasional travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Strong PostgreSQL administration experience in production environments.
• Experience with replication, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Excellent performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience maintaining business-critical database platforms and security.

Responsibilities

• Administration, monitoring and optimisation of PostgreSQL databases.
• Support upgrades, migrations and lifecycle management.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and standards.
• Provide day-to-day support for Oracle environments where required.
• Collaborate with development, infra and devops teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Replication & High Availability

Performance tuning

Backup & Disaster recovery

Architecture & standards

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Job description

Uniting Ambition is seeking a hands-on PostgreSQL Database Administrator to own the PostgreSQL estate as part of a major platform modernisation. The role blends support, project work and architectural input across a growing database platform with some Oracle work in a mixed estate.

You’ll improve replication, HA, backups and DR while contributing to architecture, standards and best practices. UK-based with remote/hybrid setup and occasional travel to client sites.