Cloud-Native PostgreSQL DBA — Remote

RXinsider LTD.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Performance-based bonus

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401K with company match

HSA contributions

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Continued education funds

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

DrFirst is seeking a cloud-native PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. The role focuses on PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora within a scalable, event-driven persistence architecture, driving automated, reliable database operations across multiple environments.

You will manage setup, upgrades, monitoring, and disaster recovery while collaborating with DevOps, application engineering, and architecture to ensure data flows seamlessly from upstream sources through brokers and

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of hands on experience as a PostgreSQL Database Administrator in cloud environments.
• Strong production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and root cause analysis.
• Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including point in time recovery and high availability configurations.
• Experience with database security, user management, IAM integration, and access controls.
• Programming skills in Python and shell scripting for automation.
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, Systems Manager, IAM, and Secrets Manager.
• Conceptual familiarity with modern persistence patterns: message and event brokers such as Kafka, Kinesis, or RabbitMQ, in memory caches such as Redis or ElastiCache, and event driven data flow.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations of PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora across multiple accounts and environments.
• Own database setup, configuration, parameter tuning, and deployment using cloud native patterns.
• Execute upgrades, patches, and version migrations with minimal downtime using blue green and rolling deployment strategies.
• Monitor database health, performance, and capacity using CloudWatch, Performance Insights, AppDynamics, and Grafana.
• Operate PostgreSQL as the system of record inside an event driven architecture, where data arrives from many upstream sources through message and event brokers.
• Collaborate with application and platform engineering on data flow from event streams such as Kafka and Kinesis into PostgreSQL and back out to consumers.
• Partner on caching and in memory data patterns such as Redis or ElastiCache for high read workloads.
• Help shape a unified persistence layer that gives applications consistent, reliable data regardless of upstream origin.
• Support read replicas, logical replication, and change data capture patterns feeding analytics, search, and reporting.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS Aurora

Python

Shell scripting

Automation

Performance tuning

Problem solving

Documentation

On-call rotation

Tools

AWS

RDS

Kafka

Kinesis

Redis/ElastiCache

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins / CI/CD

Job description

DrFirst is seeking a cloud-native PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the System Operations team. The role focuses on PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora within a scalable, event-driven persistence architecture, driving automated, reliable database operations across multiple environments.

You will manage setup, upgrades, monitoring, and disaster recovery while collaborating with DevOps, application engineering, and architecture to ensure data flows seamlessly from upstream sources through brokers and