Database Admin Expert
Allstate
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Job summary
Allstate is seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our Database Engineering team. You will design, implement, and operate enterprise PostgreSQL environments across on-premises and cloud platforms, focusing on reliability, security, and performance.
You will lead installation, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities, define standards, and collaborate with application, security, and SRE teams to ensure disaster recovery and operational excellence.
Qualifications
- Lead Level 7+ years of database administration experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise PostgreSQL environments across production and non-production landscapes.
- Lead PostgreSQL installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
- Define and maintain PostgreSQL engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices.
- Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on database design, scalability, resilience, and operational readiness.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery design and support PostgreSQL HA solutions (Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, Keepalived, streaming replication).
- Implement and maintain disaster-recovery strategies across multiple sites/regions.
- Plan and execute failover, switchover, recovery, and resiliency tests.
- Work with stakeholders to define recovery time/point objectives.
- Backup and Recovery design, implement, and operate enterprise PostgreSQL backup and recovery solutions.
- Administer pgBackRest, WAL archiving, PITR, retention, recovery validation.
- Conduct regular restore testing and disaster-recovery exercises.
- Performance and reliability: monitor availability, capacity, health, and performance.
- Analyze and optimize SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, configurations, and workloads.
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents and lead root-cause analysis.
- Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
- Security and compliance: implement access controls, least privilege, auditing.
- Manage roles, privileges, authentication, encryption, and credential-management integrations.
- Support compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, and evidence requests.
- Automation and DevOps: automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, and operations.
- Use IaC, CM, source control, and CI/CD to improve repeatability.
- Partner with teams to enable safe self-service and reduce manual work.
- Platform operations and technical leadership: support mission-critical environments.
- On-call rotations, incident response, change management, problem management.
- Create runbooks, guides, standards, and docs.
- Mentor engineers and provide leadership for PostgreSQL initiatives.
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Job description
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
We are seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join the Database Engineering team and help build, operate, and modernize our enterprise PostgreSQL platform. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation, automation, security, performance, high availability, backup and recovery, and operational support of PostgreSQL environments across on-premises and cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep PostgreSQL expertise, strong Linux administration skills, hands-on experience with high availability and disaster recovery technologies, and the ability to partner effectively with application, infrastructure, security, SRE, and cloud engineering teams. Lead to Expert level is considered, Expert level is desired.
- PostgreSQL Platform Engineering Design, build, deploy, administer, and support enterprise PostgreSQL environments across production and non-production landscapes.
- Lead PostgreSQL installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
- Define and maintain PostgreSQL engineering standards, reference architectures, build procedures, operational controls, and best practices.
- Participate in architecture reviews and advise application teams on database design, scalability, resilience, and operational readiness.
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design and support PostgreSQL high-availability solutions using technologies such as Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, Keepalived, and streaming replication.
- Implement and maintain disaster-recovery strategies across multiple sites or regions.
- Plan and execute failover, switchover, recovery, and resiliency tests.
- Work with stakeholders to define, validate, and maintain recovery time and recovery point objectives.
- Backup and Recovery Design, implement, and operate enterprise PostgreSQL backup and recovery solutions.
- Administer pgBackRest, WAL archiving, point-in-time recovery, retention, and recovery validation processes.
- Conduct regular restore testing and support disaster-recovery exercises to verify recoverability.
- Performance and Reliability Monitor database availability, capacity, health, and performance.
- Analyze and optimize SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, database configurations, and workloads.
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
- Drive database reliability, observability, capacity planning, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Security and Compliance Implement database security controls, access-management standards, and least-privilege practices.
- Manage roles, privileges, authentication, encryption, auditing, and credential-management integrations.
- Support compliance reviews, vulnerability remediation, security assessments, and evidence requests.
- Automation and DevOps Develop automation for database provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, and routine operations.
- Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, source control, and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and repeatability.
- Partner with engineering teams to expand safe self-service capabilities and reduce manual operational effort.
- Platform Operations and Technical Leadership Provide support for mission-critical production and non-production PostgreSQL environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations, major incident response, change management, and problem management.
- Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, and operational documentation.
- Mentor engineers, review technical solutions, and provide technical leadership for PostgreSQL initiatives.
- Lead Level 7+ years of database administration experience.
- 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Expert Level 10+ years of database administration experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Plus the Technical Skills listed below.
- Strong Linux administration experience; RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution is preferred.
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, internals, configuration, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL streaming replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, WAL management, and capacity planning.
- Strong SQL, execution-plan analysis, indexing, and query-optimization skills.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex database, operating system, storage, and connectivity issues in production environments.
- Experience planning and executing database upgrades, migrations, patching, and production changes.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and work effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Experience with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL or Percona-supported PostgreSQL environments.
- Hands-on experience with Patroni, etcd, HAProxy, Keepalived, pgBackRest, and PostgreSQL-native monitoring and diagnostic tools.
- Experience with cloud database and infrastructure platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Percona Monitoring and Management.
- Experience with automation and delivery tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to other database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, or Neo4j.
- Experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring team members, and influencing platform standards.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and customer focus.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and drive technical initiatives to completion.
- Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience working in large-scale, highly available, and regulated enterprise environments.
Access Management, Access Management, Accountability, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Authentication, Backup and Recovery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Platform, Collaboration, Communication, Compliance, Computer Science, Continuous Integration Software, Credential Management, Database Administration, Database Design, Database Engineering, Database Management Systems (DBMS), Database Performance, Database Security, Database Technologies, Datadog, Data Modeling, DevOps
Compensation offered for this role is 110,000.00 - 181,025.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position. Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs. When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload. To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter. Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.
At Allstate, we work hard to help people live a good life every day. Allstaters are dedicated to serving clients, customers, and communities, which allows employees to find meaning and value in their work. Allstate offers an environment that fosters innovative thinking where you'll be able to explore your ideas and feel proud of the work you do. Allstate helps protect nearly 16 million households with auto, home, life, and retirement products. We want every professional connected to Allstate to be committed to giving our customers the best and that means finding the best talent. We want you to be our next great addition.
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