Cloud Database Engineer – PostgreSQL

Webhosting; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology in Hyderabad seeks an experienced PostgreSQL DBA to ensure reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence of our multi-cloud DBaaS platform across AWS. The role emphasizes PostgreSQL administration, backups, performance tuning, security, and IaC-driven deployments.

You’ll work with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus and Grafana, manage migrations, and implement SRE practices including incident response, monitoring, SLAs, and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• Experience as a PostgreSQL DBA in a DBaaS or cloud environment.

Skills

DBA basics

Backup & restore

Performance tuning

Database security

IaC

Observability

Database migration

Database scaling

Incident management

Monitoring

SLA/SLO

Disaster recovery

Python

Shell scripting

Automation tools

Infrastructure automation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Job Description

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced PostgreSQl DBAto ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of ourmulti-cloud DBaaS platformacross:

• Amazon Web Services

For aPostgreSQL DBAin aDBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) supportrole, the followingmandatory skillsare typically required:

1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills

• Secondary Database:Any DB
• Database Backup & Recovery:Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.
• Performance Tuning:Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.
• Database Security:User management, roles, access control, and auditing.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.
• Observability Tools:ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Database Migration:Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.
• Database Scaling:Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments.

3. SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering)

• Incident Management:Handling database outages, incident response, and on-call rotations.
• Monitoring and Alerting:Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs):Ensuring uptime and performance targets.
• Disaster Recovery Planning:Ensuring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.

4. Scripting and Automation

• Scripting Languages:Python, Shell scripting, Bash, PowerShell.
• Automation Tools:Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Infrastructure Automation:Automating database deployment, patching, and scaling

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies – across applications, data and security – to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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