PostgreSQL DBA

LTM; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plan

401(k) plan with company match

Paid paternity and maternity leave

Vacation time, sick leave, paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

A leading tech company in Chandler, AZ is seeking a mid-level PostgreSQL DBA. Ideal candidates will have 4 to 8 years of hands-on experience in PostgreSQL administration, AWS exposure, and Terraform expertise. Responsibilities include ensuring database reliability, performance monitoring, and operational collaboration. The role offers comprehensive benefits including health plans and 401(k) matching. Ideal for candidates looking to grow in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years of experience as a DBA with PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of backup, recovery, and replication.
• Experience with AWS RDS/Aurora preferred.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and module writing.
• Security: roles, grants, encryption basics.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Monitor database health and troubleshoot issues.
• Implement replication and high-availability strategies.
• Collaborate with teams on schema changes and performance.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations and version compatibility checks.
• Implement and manage replication—including streaming replication, logical replication where needed, and high-availability strategies.
• Ensure database security, access controls, roles, privileges and audit readiness.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

AWS services

Terraform expertise

Production troubleshooting

Linux administration

Performance tuning

Backup & DR

Security basics

Tools

AWS RDS/Aurora

Terraform

Job description

PostgreSQL DBA

Location: Chandler, AZ

Overview

We are looking for a mid-level Database Administrator (DBA) with strong hands‑on experience in PostgreSQL administration along with solid AWS exposure and Terraform expertise, especially writing reusable Terraform modules.

4 to 8 years of experience, flexible based on depth of PostgreSQL, AWS, and Terraform.

The role will focus on ensuring database reliability, performance, security, automation and supporting cloud-based database environments.

Oracle experience is a plus but not mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production and non‑production environments.
• Perform backup and recovery planning and execution, PITR restore validations, and DR readiness.
• Monitor database health and performance; troubleshoot issues related to queries, indexing, locks, replication and storage.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations and version compatibility checks.
• Implement and manage replication—including streaming replication, logical replication where needed, and high‑availability strategies.
• Ensure database security, access controls, roles, privileges and audit readiness.
• AWS Responsibilities
  • Work with AWS services related to database hosting and operations such as Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, EC2‑based PostgreSQL deployments.
  • Support services IAM, VPC, Security Groups, KMS, CloudWatch, S3, SNS.
  • Support cloud best practices for networking, encryption, monitoring, scalability and cost awareness.
  • Participate in DR strategies using AWS native capabilities.
• Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Design and develop Terraform modules for repeatable infrastructure deployments.
  • Maintain Terraform codebase and apply IaC practices such as remote state workspaces, state locking, module versioning, reusable patterns and naming standards.
  • Secure variable handling, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store integration.
  • Partner with DevOps/SRE teams to automate infrastructure provisioning for DB environments.
• Operational Collaboration
  • Participate in on‑call production support if required for incidents and problem management.
  • Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs and technical documentation.
  • Collaborate with application teams to review schema changes, query performance and release readiness.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years of hands‑on DBA experience with PostgreSQL in production.
• Strong understanding of backup, recovery, replication, HADR concepts.
• Performance tuning, indexing, VACUUM, ANALYZE, query plan analysis.
• Security: roles, grants, encryption basics.
• Working experience in AWS RDS/Aurora preferred.
• Strong expertise in Terraform, including writing and maintaining Terraform modules.
• Familiarity with Linux administration and scripting (Shell, Python is a plus).
• Strong troubleshooting mindset and ability to handle production issues calmly.

Nice to Have / Preferred

• Oracle DBA experience: basic administration, backup/restore concepts, troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD integration for Terraform (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab).
• Monitoring tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic.
• Container environments (EKS, Kubernetes) for DB‑adjacent services.
• Exposure to security/compliance requirements: SOC2, ISO, PCI.

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical plan covering medical, dental, vision.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Life insurance.
• Vacation time, sick leave, paid holidays.
• Paid paternity and maternity leave.

Compensation

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Disclaimer

The compensation and benefits information provided herein is accurate as of the date of this posting.

Equal Opportunity Employer

LTIMindtree is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, family‑care status, veteran status, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, military service, handicap, disability or history of handicap or disability, genetic information, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, union affiliation, affectional or sexual orientation or preference, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, except where such considerations are bona fide occupational qualifications permitted by law.