Azure PostgreSQL DBA - Remote & High Availability

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible cooperation options

International projects

Travels related to projects

Private healthcare and life insurance

Multisport card

Language classes

Job summary

Software Mind is hiring an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our Data Platforms team. You will manage Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for mission-critical systems in a regulated financial services context.

You’ll lead maintenance, backups, DR, and upgrades while collaborating with DevOps and development teams to enable cloud migrations and scalable data platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience administering PostgreSQL environments, including production systems
• Strong PostgreSQL administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server or equivalent
• Experience with Azure networking and security concepts for managed databases
• Experience with backup, replication, DR, patching, and upgrades
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code in cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Administer and support PostgreSQL environments, primarily Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of production systems
• Perform backup, PITR, patching, upgrades, and maintenance
• Configure and optimise PostgreSQL features (MVCC, VACUUM, WAL, indexing)
• Design Azure PostgreSQL capabilities including HA and read replicas
• Support security controls, authentication, TLS, and access management
• Monitor query performance, locking, and replication lag
• Participate in cloud transformation and migrations to PostgreSQL
• Support DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps
• Provide leadership and knowledge transfer to DB professionals
• Participate in on-call rota and after-hours support

Skills

PostgreSQL

Azure

Linux

Scripting

Automation

DevOps

Performance tuning

SQL optimization

Tools

PgBouncer

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Git

Job description

Software Mind is hiring an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our Data Platforms team. You will manage Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for mission-critical systems in a regulated financial services context.

You’ll lead maintenance, backups, DR, and upgrades while collaborating with DevOps and development teams to enable cloud migrations and scalable data platforms.