Senior Cloud DBA (Oracle & Postgres) – AWS

Luxoft; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a senior Database Administrator to join the Managed Services database team. You will manage and support cloud-based databases (Oracle 19c and Postgres 17) across production and client environments, ensuring stability, performance, and availability.

You will work with DevOps and developers to integrate DB changes into CI/CD, implement backup and DR plans, and optimize queries and schemas. Willingness to work shifts and occasional on-call is expected.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience as a DBA with emphasis on Oracle, Postgres, AWS, and performance tuning.
• Experience in both development and production environments.
• Willingness to work any shift and perform extended hours as needed.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to operate in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the stability, performance, and availability of all production database environments.
• Manage and support managed services databases on the cloud (Oracle 19c, Postgres 17).
• Perform change management for database maintenance and deployments.
• Configure multi-AZ deployments, Read Replicas, and cross-region architectures on AWS.
• Perform database installations, patching, and upgrades on AWS infrastructure.
• Develop and test disaster recovery plans and automated backups.
• Monitor performance with CloudWatch, lambda, SNS; respond to alerts.
• Collaborate with developers, DevOps, and cloud architects to CI/CD.
• Drive automation of DBA tasks using PowerShell, Python, AWS CLI, GitHub Actions.

Skills

DBA experience

Oracle

PostgreSQL

AWS

Performance tuning

Development & production

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Shift work

Tools

OEM

Foglight

SQL Developer

PGAdmin

Shell scripting

PowerShell

PL/SQL

PG/SQL

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

JIRA

ServiceNow

Confluence

AWS CLI

CloudWatch

Job description

Luxoft is seeking a senior Database Administrator to join the Managed Services database team. You will manage and support cloud-based databases (Oracle 19c and Postgres 17) across production and client environments, ensuring stability, performance, and availability.

You will work with DevOps and developers to integrate DB changes into CI/CD, implement backup and DR plans, and optimize queries and schemas. Willingness to work shifts and occasional on-call is expected.