Lead platform Engineer- Postgres

Maneva Consulting; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Maneva Consulting is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer specialized in Postgres for Pune. The role covers on‑prem and cloud DB administration, backups, high availability, security, and performance monitoring. Immediate to 30 days notice period may apply. 7–12 years of relevant experience is expected.

The candidate will handle installation, configuration, upgrades, and observability dashboards, ensuring robust database availability and reliability for critical apps.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with Postgres DB administration (On-Prem & Cloud).
• Experience with AWS/Azure cloud DB setups is required.
• Knowledge of Cassandra, Redis or Oracle is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and upgrade Postgres databases; manage objects and permissions.
• Implement monitoring and observability dashboards for all databases.
• Create alerts on Splunk, Dynatrace and PEM.
• Ensure database security, roles and authentication handling.
• Plan backup and recovery strategies to protect data.
• Tackle high availability and schema upgrade testing and verification.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Cloud DB administration

Database security

Backup and recovery

Monitoring & observability

High availability

Schema upgrades

User management

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

Splunk

Dynatrace

PEM

Job description

Greetings from Maneva!

Job Description

Lead platform Engineer- Postgres

Location: Pune

Experience: 7 - 12 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

Requirements

• Relevant more than 7 - 15 plus Years of experience handling Postgres Database (On-Prem and Cloud). Knowledge of Cassandra, Redis and Oracle is added advantage.
• Ability to work on database setup of public cloud (like AWS and Azure).
• Responsible for installation, configuration, applying patching, DB upgrades, object creations and administration of Postgres databases.
• Implement proactive monitoring and observability dashboards of all databases to predict and diagnose the majority of problems before they impact application performance or user experience.
• Create dashboard and configure alerts on Splunk, Dynatrace, and PEM.
• Security: Set up user accounts and ensure database security protocols are followed.
• Backup and recovery: Implement backup and recovery plans to protect data against loss.
• Undertake periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades.
• Support the installation and configuration of Databases for high availability.
• Work on maintaining database security (roles, privileges, authentication).