Senior PostgreSQL Engineer & Architect | HA & Cloud

NTT DATA, Inc.; Hove; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a PostgreSQL engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise PostgreSQL across on‑prem, cloud and managed environments. You will monitor availability, performance, replication and capacity, and lead backups and DR readiness.

You bring Linux administration, scripting, and cloud database experience to help define architecture, operating standards and modernization roadmaps for resilient deployments.

Qualifications

• PostgreSQL administration across enterprise environments.
• Experience with streaming/logical replication and high availability.
• Backup, restore and point-in-time recovery capabilities.
• Performance tuning and query optimization.
• Security, encryption and auditing practices.
• Strong Linux administration and scripting skills.
• Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL services exposure.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database availability, performance, replication and capacity.
• Resolve incidents and fulfil database service requests.
• Install, configure, patch and upgrade PostgreSQL environments.
• Perform backup, restoration and point-in-time recovery.
• Configure and maintain replication and high-availability capabilities.
• Analyse query performance and optimise configurations.
• Manage database access, roles, encryption and auditing.
• Support migrations from other database technologies.
• Automate health checks, maintenance and reporting.
• Support resilience and disaster-recovery testing.
• At L4, provide expert support for complex database failures or performance issues.
• At L5, define PostgreSQL architecture, operating standards and modernization roadmaps.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Streaming replication

High availability

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Database security

Linux administration

Cloud PostgreSQL

Scripting and automation

Education

EDB PostgreSQL certification

Linux certification

Cloud database certification

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a PostgreSQL engineer, specialist or architect to support enterprise PostgreSQL across on‑prem, cloud and managed environments. You will monitor availability, performance, replication and capacity, and lead backups and DR readiness.

You bring Linux administration, scripting, and cloud database experience to help define architecture, operating standards and modernization roadmaps for resilient deployments.