Senior AWS PostgreSQL Architect | Aurora/RDS, High Availability
Cognizant
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Job summary
Cognizant has an opening for an AWS PostgreSQL Database Architect to lead design, implementation, and optimisation of enterprise database platforms on AWS in Raleigh, NC. The role focuses on PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, cloud migrations, performance tuning, high availability, DR, and database security.
Work involves collaborating with application teams, cloud architects, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure database solutions supporting mission-critical
Qualifications
- 10+ years in database architecture or enterprise data platforms.
- 5+ years PostgreSQL in large-scale production.
- Deep expertise with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL & Amazon Aurora.
- Experience designing cloud-native DB solutions on AWS.
- Strong knowledge of performance tuning and indexing.
- IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
- Hands-on CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Experience in financial services domain is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud-native PostgreSQL architectures on AWS.
- Develop architecture blueprints, reference implementations, and docs.
- Collaborate with product owners, devs, and infrastructure teams.
- Define logical/physical data models ensuring data integrity and scalability.
- Review designs to optimise indexing, partitioning, replication.
- Architect high availability and disaster recovery on AWS.
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Job description
Cognizant has an opening for an AWS PostgreSQL Database Architect to lead design, implementation, and optimisation of enterprise database platforms on AWS in Raleigh, NC. The role focuses on PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, cloud migrations, performance tuning, high availability, DR, and database security.
Work involves collaborating with application teams, cloud architects, DevOps, and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure database solutions supporting mission-critical
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