Senior AWS Aurora PostgreSQL DBA – Remote, Public Sector

Montash; England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Montash is recruiting an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL DBA for a high-stakes public sector database programme. The role combines hands-on database leadership with security compliance in a regulated environment, spanning design, performance tuning, backup and DR planning.

You will act as technical authority across teams, driving resilience, schema design and high availability, while communicating complex concepts to senior stakeholders. Remote work with ad-hoc travel to London.

Qualifications

• Senior DBA with enterprise-scale AWS Aurora PostgreSQL expertise.
• Experience in performance tuning, schema design and indexing strategies.
• Security controls including encryption, access management and auditing for government standards.
• Ability to lead across multiple teams and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in backup, recovery and disaster recovery planning in AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Own database design and optimisation for performance and scalability.
• Implement robust security controls to meet compliance.
• Develop automated backup routines and DR plans.
• Monitor performance with PostgreSQL tools and resolve bottlenecks.
• Manage patching and upgrades for managed AWS PostgreSQL instances.
• Provide technical leadership across database workstreams.
• Engage stakeholders and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Contribute to architecture discussions aligning with security standards.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL at enterprise scale.
• Experience with AWS RDS and other managed DB services.

Skills

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Database performance tuning

Schema design

Resilience engineering

High availability

Backup and recovery planning

Disaster recovery

Security controls

Access management

Encryption

Auditing

Monitoring PostgreSQL tools

Patch management

Upgrades management

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Architecture discussions

Public sector security environments

DevOps / IaC for databases

PostgreSQL observability tooling

AWS RDS

Enterprise-scale databases

Tools

AWS RDS

PostgreSQL monitoring tools

Job description

Montash is recruiting an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL DBA for a high-stakes public sector database programme. The role combines hands-on database leadership with security compliance in a regulated environment, spanning design, performance tuning, backup and DR planning.

You will act as technical authority across teams, driving resilience, schema design and high availability, while communicating complex concepts to senior stakeholders. Remote work with ad-hoc travel to London.