Azure PostgreSQL DBA - Cloud, HA & Automation

Captech-Consulting; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development

Modern Health

401(k) Matching

Job summary

CapTech is seeking an Azure PostgreSQL Database Administrator to own health, performance, and security of client data platforms in a hands-on, cloud-first consulting role. You will work with engineers, architects, analysts, and stakeholders to stabilize current systems and design future states.

The role emphasizes automation, proactive monitoring, and robust design to prevent incidents, with on-call rotation and collaboration across delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Five or more years administering PostgreSQL in production, including tuning, upgrades, backup and recovery, replication, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Administer PostgreSQL environments across development, test, and production, including Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server and self-managed instances on Azure virtual machines or AKS.
• Own performance tuning end to end: analyze execution plans, design indexing and partitioning strategies, tune autovacuum and server parameters, and resolve bloat, lock contention, and connection saturation.
• Design and test high availability and disaster recovery configurations, including read replicas, zone-redundant deployments, point-in-time restore, and documented failover runbooks with defined RPO and RTO targets.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of database infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep, and deliver schema changes through Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions with tools such as Flyway or Liquibase.
• Implement database security and compliance controls, including Microsoft Entra ID authentication, role and privilege design, row-level security, encryption at rest and in transit, private endpoints, and Key Vault secret rotation.
• Build observability into the data tier with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Query Store, and define the alerting thresholds that catch problems before clients notice them.
• Manage capacity and cost, right-sizing compute and storage tiers and advising clients on reserved capacity and scaling strategy.
• Partner with application engineers on data modeling, query design, and connection pooling through PgBouncer or the built-in pooler.
• Produce runbooks, standards, and knowledge transfer materials that leave client teams able to operate the platform after the engagement ends.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for production support where the engagement requires it.

Skills

PostgreSQL tuning

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Flyway

Liquibase

Job description

CapTech is seeking an Azure PostgreSQL Database Administrator to own health, performance, and security of client data platforms in a hands-on, cloud-first consulting role. You will work with engineers, architects, analysts, and stakeholders to stabilize current systems and design future states.

The role emphasizes automation, proactive monitoring, and robust design to prevent incidents, with on-call rotation and collaboration across delivery teams.