Junior Hybrid DBA: PostgreSQL & MongoDB on GCP

APEX Fintech Services; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO

401k match

Parental leave

HSA contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Hybrid work

Job summary

Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Senior-Plus level DBA to administer and optimize high-volume database systems across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud services. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and collaboration with engineering teams.

The position requires 5+ years of DBA experience, strong SQL skills, and expertise in GCP, BigQuery, and IaC tooling. A hybrid work setup is offered with core hours in Central Time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience, preferably with Postgres and MongoDB.
• Experience administering PostgreSQL environments including replication.
• GCP Cloud SQL PostgreSQL knowledge and BigQuery experience a plus.
• Terraform / IaC and GitHub for managing database infrastructure changes.
• High-availability architectures and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Implement database changes via IaC (Terraform + GitHub PRs).
• Manage large transactional replication with low-latency delivery; tune performance.
• Establish backup/restore, PITR, HA/failover testing, DR runbooks, and a database support plan.
• Collaborate with engineering on schema reviews, query optimization, and BigQuery governance; handle security tasks.
• Embrace DevOps: automate DB operations, CI/CD for DB changes, and monitoring/alerting.
• Support incident response and participate in on-call rotations (Central Time) and maintenance.

Skills

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

GCP

BigQuery

Terraform

IaC

GitHub

SQL

HA/DR

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Eng

Tools

Memorystore Redis

AlloyDB

Spanner

BigQuery

Job description

Apex Fintech Solutions is seeking a Senior-Plus level DBA to administer and optimize high-volume database systems across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud services. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and collaboration with engineering teams.

The position requires 5+ years of DBA experience, strong SQL skills, and expertise in GCP, BigQuery, and IaC tooling. A hybrid work setup is offered with core hours in Central Time.