Postgres Platform Architect: Kubernetes & Self-Healing DBaaS

Dell GmbH; Round Rock, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Round Rock, Texas, seeks a Postgres Database Engineer to architect and operate a global PostgreSQL platform. You will design Kubernetes-native deployments, implement self-healing tooling, and mentor engineers across multiple pods.

The role emphasizes extensive PostgreSQL experience, Kubernetes for stateful workloads, and automation via Python/Go/Bash, with Ansible for IaC. Join a team delivering scalable database services at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRest
• 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 at scale

Kubernetes

Automation frameworks

Python

Go

Bash

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Dell Technologies in Round Rock, Texas, seeks a Postgres Database Engineer to architect and operate a global PostgreSQL platform. You will design Kubernetes-native deployments, implement self-healing tooling, and mentor engineers across multiple pods.

The role emphasizes extensive PostgreSQL experience, Kubernetes for stateful workloads, and automation via Python/Go/Bash, with Ansible for IaC. Join a team delivering scalable database services at scale.