Hybrid Senior PostgreSQL Engineer — HA, Automation & DR

Agile Global Solutions, Inc; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Global Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to lead enterprise PostgreSQL architecture, HA/DR, performance tuning, security, and automation. The role requires hands-on PostgreSQL administration in large-scale environments, with onsite hybrid work and a strong focus on reliability.

You will design standardized builds, implement backup and recovery, and oversee patching and upgrades while mentoring internal teams and developing runbooks for operations.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of database administration experience.
• 5+ years of production PostgreSQL administration.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.
• Hands-on experience with Patroni or an equivalent HA framework.
• Experience with enterprise backup tools, WAL archiving, PITR.
• Experience with PostgreSQL monitoring tools.
• Strong RHEL/Linux administration skills.
• Experience managing large-scale PostgreSQL environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise PostgreSQL architecture.
• Configure and manage HA solutions (Patroni, etcd/Consul, streaming replication, HAProxy, PgBouncer).
• Implement enterprise backup and recovery (pgBackRest, WAL archiving, PITR).
• Design, test, and maintain disaster recovery solutions, with RPO/RTO controls.
• Monitor and troubleshoot PostgreSQL performance, replication lag, and capacity.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, and configurations.
• Automate provisioning and operations (Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python/Shell, CI/CD).
• Develop architecture documents and runbooks; transfer knowledge to teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL expert

HA/DR design

Performance tuning

Automation scripting

CI/CD familiarity

Linux admin

Incident response

Knowledge transfer

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/CE

Tools

Patroni

etcd/Consul

pgBackRest

WAL archiving

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Job description

Agile Global Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer to lead enterprise PostgreSQL architecture, HA/DR, performance tuning, security, and automation. The role requires hands-on PostgreSQL administration in large-scale environments, with onsite hybrid work and a strong focus on reliability.

You will design standardized builds, implement backup and recovery, and oversee patching and upgrades while mentoring internal teams and developing runbooks for operations.