Remote PostgreSQL DevOps Engineer — CI/CD & HA

Pennant Solutions Group; Richmond, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennant Solutions Group is seeking a PostgreSQL Database DevOps Engineer who can design and implement CI/CD pipelines for PostgreSQL and SQL Server, automate deployments, and optimize database performance in a remote EST-friendly role.

You will administer PostgreSQL in production, manage backups and high availability, and collaborate across DevOps and development teams to drive automation and best practices, with optional Azure cloud involvement.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing Database CI/CD processes and deployment automation.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL database administration experience.
• Experience with Jenkins, Flyway, Redgate, or similar database DevOps tools.
• Expertise with PostgreSQL backup/recovery, clustering, replication, failover, and scaling.
• Experience supporting relational database environments, including PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain database CI/CD pipelines for PostgreSQL and SQL Server database environments.
• Automate database deployments, schema migrations, and release management using tools such as Jenkins, Flyway, Redgate, or similar technologies.
• Administer and support PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Manage database backup and recovery strategies to ensure data protection and business continuity.
• Configure and maintain PostgreSQL clustering, replication, failover, and high-availability solutions.
• Support database scalability, performance tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Analyze and optimize SQL queries to improve application and database performance.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to implement database best practices and automation.
• Support cloud-hosted database environments, preferably within Microsoft Azure.

Skills

Database CI/CD

PostgreSQL administration

Deployment automation

Troubleshooting

Performance tuning

Collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

Flyway

Redgate

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Pennant Solutions Group is seeking a PostgreSQL Database DevOps Engineer who can design and implement CI/CD pipelines for PostgreSQL and SQL Server, automate deployments, and optimize database performance in a remote EST-friendly role.

You will administer PostgreSQL in production, manage backups and high availability, and collaborate across DevOps and development teams to drive automation and best practices, with optional Azure cloud involvement.