Postgres Platform Architect: Kubernetes & Self-Healing

Dell GmbH; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies seeks a Postgres Database Engineer to architect and operate a global PostgreSQL platform. You’ll design Kubernetes-native deployments, build autonomous tooling for self-healing operations, and mentor teams across regions.

Responsibilities include cross-regional HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselining for thousands of instances. Strong SQL, DevOps, and automation skills required.

Qualifications

• 10–14 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale, open-source contributions, or published work.
• 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRes
• 3+ years of Kubernetes for stateful workloads — operators, persistent storage design, backup/restore in K8s, multi-cluster patterns
• 3+ years building automation frameworks in Python, Go, or Bash - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
• Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell's global fleet - HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselines for thousands of instances
• Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni), storage architecture, multi-region failover, and observability integration
• Build agentic/autonomous tooling for self-healing failover, automated VACUUM/analyze scheduling, and predictive capacity alerts using LLM-augmented logic
• Author Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Ansible)
• Mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews and represent Postgres requirements planning and vendor negotiations

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Automation scripting

Programming languages (Python/Go/Bash)

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Ansible

pgBackRest

Patroni

CloudNativePG

PgBouncer

Job description

Dell Technologies seeks a Postgres Database Engineer to architect and operate a global PostgreSQL platform. You’ll design Kubernetes-native deployments, build autonomous tooling for self-healing operations, and mentor teams across regions.

Responsibilities include cross-regional HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselining for thousands of instances. Strong SQL, DevOps, and automation skills required.