Data Engineer II - PostgreSQL/Redshift DBA (Contract)

Primary Talent Partners, LLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 81,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Primary Talent Partners is seeking a Data Engineer II for a 12-month contract in Charlotte, NC. You will own operational DBA responsibilities for PostgreSQL and Redshift, ensuring availability, performance, security, backup, and recovery for nuclear data products and analytics workloads.

This W2 contract has no PTO or benefits, ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to sit on the W2 without

Qualifications

• DoE 10 CFR Part 810 compliance and US work authorization required.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field or 7+ years database experience.
• 7+ years progressive DBA experience for production PostgreSQL/Redshift.
• Experience with Redshift distribution, sorting, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with regulated enterprise environments and change management.

Responsibilities

• Administer PostgreSQL and Redshift in multi-stage environments.
• Manage schemas, objects, users, and permissions with least-privilege access.
• Maintain backups, recovery, and continuity procedures.
• Develop indexing, partitioning, and workload management strategies.
• Monitor availability, performance and incidents; lead triage and RCA.
• Collaborate with engineers on data models, APIs, and integrations.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Redshift

SQL performance

Data modeling

Monitoring

CloudWatch

Automation/CI-CD

Education

Bachelor degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Flyway

Terraform

GitHub

Qlik Replicate

AWS Glue

Power BI / SSRS

Job description

Primary Talent Partners is seeking a Data Engineer II for a 12-month contract in Charlotte, NC. You will own operational DBA responsibilities for PostgreSQL and Redshift, ensuring availability, performance, security, backup, and recovery for nuclear data products and analytics workloads.

This W2 contract has no PTO or benefits, ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to sit on the W2 without