Senior/Lead Database Administrator (PostgreSQL)

Medium; Warsaw (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global communications company is seeking a Senior/Lead Database Administrator to join their NRS Team. This role involves designing and maintaining PostgreSQL databases, monitoring performance, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate has extensive PostgreSQL experience and skills in AWS RDS. Remote work opportunities available alongside competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Remote work opportunities

Medical insurance

Sports activities reimbursement

26 vacation days

5 fully covered sick days

Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL administration.
• Experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL for querying and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify issues.
• Collaborate with developers and data teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

AWS RDS for PostgreSQL

SQL

Performance tuning

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Senior/Lead Database Administrator to join our NRS Team!

Primary location: Minsk, Belarus. The NRS point-of-sale (POS) solution consists of devices deployed at our customer’s locations that interact with cloud-based services. With over 30,000 customers across the US, NRS seeks a dedicated resource focused on design, configuration, scalability, and performance tuning of the PostgreSQL RDS instances that are core to our cloud infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (self-hosted and RDS)
• Support multiple environments and teams
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve issues
• Optimize queries and database schema for performance and scalability
• Upgrade planning and execution
• Schema changes, migrations, improvements
• Collaborate with developers, QA, DevOps, data teams, and others
• Reporting and analytics support
• Data archiving, migrations, import/export, etc.
• Disaster recovery planning — backups, replication, failover strategies, plans
• Security and access controls
• Compliance
• Capacity planning
• Cost management

Requirements

• Experience with PostgreSQL administration
• Experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, including parameter groups, snapshots, and monitoring
• Advanced knowledge of SQL for querying, optimization, and troubleshooting
• Proficiency in performance tuning, vacuuming strategies, indexing, and partitioning
• Experience with high availability, read replicas, and failover strategies
• Scripting experience for automation
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Experience with monitoring tools
• Familiarity with other database technologies
• Experience migrating from self-hosted to RDS or vice versa
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Analytical mindset and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, iterative environment

We are pleased to offer you

• An exciting and challenging job with talented people around.
• Competitive salary and growth opportunities.
• Really good hardware.
• Remote work opportunity or hybrid in Minsk
• Sports activities reimbursement.
• Medical insurance.
• 26 vacation days & 5 fully covered sick days without sick leave required per year.
• Superb corporate English lessons.

A few words about us

IDT Corporation is a global communications company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey. We are industry leaders in prepaid communication and payment services and one of the largest international voice carriers.

We are listed on the NYSE, employ over 1800 people across 20 countries, and have over $1.5 billion in revenues.

About NRS

National Retail Solutions (NRS), currently a wholly owned subsidiary of IDT Corporation, is revolutionizing the independent retail industry by providing them with cost-effective, state-of-the-art point of sale systems and complementary services such as apps for store management and consumer ordering, web store front for the store, and loyalty programs allowing small retailers to more effectively compete with the larger store chains and online merchants.

We are deployed in well over 20 thousand stores across the US at this time.