Database Administrator: Cloud & Geospatial Analytics

Freedom Technology Solutions Group, LLC; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Fully paid medical

Paid training & tuition reimbursement

Referral bonuses

Paid time off

Job summary

Freedom Technology Solutions Group seeks an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to design, implement, and maintain enterprise databases. You will ensure availability, performance, integrity, and security across multiple programs and customer environments, collaborating with developers, cloud engineers, and cybersecurity professionals.

The role emphasizes outages prevention, backup and DR planning, and performance tuning, with opportunities to work on geospatial and data analytics workloads

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent experience may be substituted.
• 3–8 years of experience administering enterprise database environments.
• Demonstrated PostgreSQL experience in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience implementing backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, and maintain enterprise database environments.
• Ensure database availability, reliability, integrity, and performance across environments.
• Monitor database health and resolve performance bottlenecks and issues.
• Develop and maintain database standards, procedures, and documentation.
• Perform database patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions for continuity.
• Plan capacity and performance tuning for databases.
• Support containerized/Kubernetes-based deployments and cloud services.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Ansible.
• Automate provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and maintenance via CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Support modernization and cloud-native migrations.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Database performance tuning

Security/compliance awareness

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

Terraform/Ansible

RMF/DoD security frameworks

Job description

Freedom Technology Solutions Group seeks an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to design, implement, and maintain enterprise databases. You will ensure availability, performance, integrity, and security across multiple programs and customer environments, collaborating with developers, cloud engineers, and cybersecurity professionals.

The role emphasizes outages prevention, backup and DR planning, and performance tuning, with opportunities to work on geospatial and data analytics workloads