Remote Senior PostgreSQL & Azure Database Engineer

NTT Data Americas, Inc.; Mahwah (NJ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible spending or health savings

AD&D insurance

Employee assistance

Participation in 401k program

Additional voluntary or legally-re quI

Job summary

NTT DATA Americas, Inc. is seeking an experienced database administrator to manage and optimize large-scale production environments. The role focuses on PostgreSQL proficiency, Azure cloud integration, and ensuring performance, security, and high availability across enterprise databases.

The ideal candidate will design solutions, perform migrations, and collaborate with development teams to optimize SQL and data architecture while supporting on-call incidents and cloud modernization efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience with other relational databases (SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Oracle).
• 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and database technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting bottlenecks.
• 5+ years of experience with backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability solutions.
• 4+ years of experience using database monitoring and performance management tools.
• 4+ years of experience implementing database security best practices and data governance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support large-scale production database environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Perform database performance analysis, troubleshooting, and fine-tuning to optimize system efficiency.
• Design and implement database solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Support database deployments, upgrades, patching, and system maintenance activities.
• Collaborate with application development teams to optimize database design and SQL queries.
• Implement and enforce database security, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and database standards.
• Participate in on-call support and incident resolution activities as needed.
• Support cloud database platforms and assist with database modernization initiatives.

Job description

NTT DATA Americas, Inc. is seeking an experienced database administrator to manage and optimize large-scale production environments. The role focuses on PostgreSQL proficiency, Azure cloud integration, and ensuring performance, security, and high availability across enterprise databases.

The ideal candidate will design solutions, perform migrations, and collaborate with development teams to optimize SQL and data architecture while supporting on-call incidents and cloud modernization efforts.