Remote Senior PostgreSQL Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in the United States is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL in production environments, with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes expertise.

You will work with SRE, application engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to improve data system availability, scalability, and performance, while building ETL pipelines and managing backups in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, operating, and troubleshooting PostgreSQL in production environments.
• 5+ years managing production databases or distributed data systems across application, database, OS, storage and network layers.
• 3+ years Linux systems engineering (performance tuning, memory I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking) and automating infra or db ops with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• 2+ years scripting or programming in Python, Bash, Go, Ruby, or Perl for automation and tooling.
• Experience in polyglot production data environments including non-PostgreSQL systems like Kafka/MSK, ClickHouse, Redis, MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch.

Responsibilities

• Plan, administer, and secure the PostgreSQL infrastructure with SRE teams to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Design, build, and maintain ETL pipelines for PostgreSQL and data migration procedures.
• Perform operational DBA tasks: installation, upgrades, patching, backups, monitoring, capacity planning, and cloud-based architectural changes.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, monitoring, alerting, and post-incident reviews.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Linux

Automation

ETL pipelines

SRE collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Python

Bash

Go

Ruby

Perl

Kafka

MSK

ClickHouse

Redis

MySQL

Cassandra

Elasticsearch

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in the United States is seeking a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and optimize PostgreSQL in production environments, with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes expertise.

You will work with SRE, application engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to improve data system availability, scalability, and performance, while building ETL pipelines and managing backups in cloud environments.