Aurora PostgreSQL Specialist & Migration Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 169,000 - 228,600; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora PostgreSQL to lead architecture, migrations, and operations of PostgreSQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and RDS.

You will collaborate with AWS customers and CTOs to design production-grade architectures, optimize performance, ensure high availability, and guide migrations from Oracle and SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL. As a thought leader, you will mentor teammates, publish technical content, present at conferences,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology domain experience
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
• Hands on experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, or significant hands-on time with AWS database and migration services (DMS, SCT)
• Led migrations to Aurora as the technical owner
• Experience with Aurora/PostgreSQL features and replication, and performance validation

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical advisor for AWS's key customers running or migrating to Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL
• Guide customers on Aurora PostgreSQL operational best practices including performance, high availability, monitoring, maintenance and security
• Design and validate Aurora PostgreSQL architectures leveraging storage auto-scaling, read replica scaling, Global Database, HA/DR, Serverless
• Partner with the Aurora service team as the voice of the customer and participate in roadmap reviews
• Engage with customer engineers in whiteboard sessions and architecture reviews
• Develop and publish technical thought leadership content and reference architectures

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Aurora PostgreSQL

Database migrations

Performance tuning

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Leadership

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora PostgreSQL to lead architecture, migrations, and operations of PostgreSQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and RDS.

You will collaborate with AWS customers and CTOs to design production-grade architectures, optimize performance, ensure high availability, and guide migrations from Oracle and SQL Server to Aurora PostgreSQL. As a thought leader, you will mentor teammates, publish technical content, present at conferences,