Senior Azure PostgreSQL DBA – Hybrid LA (Contract)

Vsolutions Technologies; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vsolutions Technologies is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL DBA to own the design, availability, performance, and security of our Azure-hosted PostgreSQL estate. You will manage both Azure Database for PostgreSQL and self-managed PostgreSQL on Azure VMs across Linux and Windows servers.

This hands-on role requires deep expertise in high-availability architectures, failover operations, and major version upgrades, including PostgreSQL 17/18 and upcoming 19 releases.

Qualifications

• Azure hosting experience is non-negotiable; on-premises or other clouds only are not acceptable.
• 7+ years of production PostgreSQL administration, with 3+ years on PG 14+.
• 3+ years hosting PostgreSQL in Microsoft Azure, including Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server.
• Experience owning a production active-passive HA cluster with a real failover.
• Experience designing/operating active-active/bi-directional replication and conflict handling.
• Administer PostgreSQL on Linux (RHEL/CentOS) and Windows Server in production.
• Familiarity with security, monitoring, and performance tuning in a large PostgreSQL estate.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, availability, performance, and security of our production PostgreSQL estate on Azure.
• Architect high-availability and disaster-recovery topology (active-passive and active-active).
• Lead upgrades to PostgreSQL 17, 18, and future 19 releases, including testing.
• Serve as final escalation point for database incidents and ensure rapid resolution.
• Write/runbooks and documentation for runbooks, architecture decisions, and change requests.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation as needed.
• Collaborate with DevOps and SRE teams using IaC (Terraform/Bicep), Azure CLI, and PowerShell.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Azure hosting experience

HA/DR design

Read execution plans

Security/compliance knowledge

Strong written communication

On-call rotation participation

Education

RHCSA or equivalent Linux certification

Tools

Azure Database for PostgreSQL (flexible server)

pgBackRest

Barman

pg_upgrade

PgBouncer

Patroni

Etcd/Consul

Terraform or Bicep

Azure CLI/PowerShell

Job description

Vsolutions Technologies is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL DBA to own the design, availability, performance, and security of our Azure-hosted PostgreSQL estate. You will manage both Azure Database for PostgreSQL and self-managed PostgreSQL on Azure VMs across Linux and Windows servers.

This hands-on role requires deep expertise in high-availability architectures, failover operations, and major version upgrades, including PostgreSQL 17/18 and upcoming 19 releases.