Senior Cloud DBA: Postgres/BigQuery, Terraform, Hybrid

Apex Fintech Solutions LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Healthcare benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Apex Fintech Solutions LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead and optimize our high‑volume, cloud‑native databases across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud Platform services.

You will implement IaC with Terraform, manage CI/CD for database changes, and partner with engineering to ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability in a DevOps culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering required.
• 8+ years of work experience in database administration or equivalent.
• Experience with MongoDB and PostgreSQL Server in cloud/native environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize high‑volume MongoDB and PostgreSQL systems (Cloud SQL) in highly available environments.
• Design and own Terraform modules for GCP databases: Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, Memorystore Redis/Valkey, AlloyDB, Spanner, and BigQuery.
• Manage large transactional replication with low‑latency delivery; use BigQuery as a replication target and tune performance/cost.
• Implement database changes via IaC (Terraform with GitHub PRs) following performance, security, and reliability best practices.
• Establish backup/restore, PITR, HA/failover testing, DR runbooks, and an overall database support plan.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema reviews, query optimization, and BigQuery governance.
• Handle security and audit tasks; respond to support requests and data change needs promptly.
• Support incident response and participate in on‑call rotations (including off‑hours, Central Time) and scheduled maintenance such as patching, large data scripts, VLDB index work, and DR testing.

Skills

Independent worker

Strong communication

Analytical troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

DevOps awareness

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Redis/Memorystore

Spanner

AlloyDB

CI/CD tooling

GitHub

Job description

Apex Fintech Solutions LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to lead and optimize our high‑volume, cloud‑native databases across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud Platform services.

You will implement IaC with Terraform, manage CI/CD for database changes, and partner with engineering to ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability in a DevOps culture.