Senior PostgreSQL Engineer & Architect (L2–L5)

NTT Ltd.; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a PostgreSQL specialist/architect to support enterprise PostgreSQL services across on‑prem, cloud, and managed environments. You will monitor availability, performance, replication, and capacity, and lead resilience efforts.

Responsibilities include installation, upgrades, backup/recovery, security, and migrations. You will contribute to architecture standards and modernization roadmaps at higher levels.

Qualifications

• Proven PostgreSQL administration experience in on‑prem, cloud, and managed environments.
• Experience with streaming/logical replication, high availability, and clustering.
• Strong backup, restore, and point‑in‑time recovery skills.
• Ability to analyze query performance and optimize configurations.
• Knowledge of database security practices and Linux administration.
• Experience supporting migrations from other DB technologies.
• Proficient scripting and automation capabilities.

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 database configurations.
• Manage database access, roles, encryption and auditing.
• Support migrations from other database technologies.
• Automate operational health checks, maintenance and reporting.
• Support resilience and disaster‑recovery testing.
• Provide expert support for complex database failures or performance issues at L4.
• Define PostgreSQL architecture and modernization roadmaps at L5.

Skills

PostgreSQL admin

HA/Clustering

Performance tuning

Backup & Recovery

Linux admin

Cloud PostgreSQL

Scripting/Automation

Security

Education

EDB PostgreSQL certification

Linux certification

Cloud database certification

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a PostgreSQL specialist/architect to support enterprise PostgreSQL services across on‑prem, cloud, and managed environments. You will monitor availability, performance, replication, and capacity, and lead resilience efforts.

Responsibilities include installation, upgrades, backup/recovery, security, and migrations. You will contribute to architecture standards and modernization roadmaps at higher levels.