Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Apexon

Clearwater (FL)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

10 hours ago

Be an early applicant

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401K Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Vacations

Skill Development

Job summary

Apexon is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join our remote team. You will manage PostgreSQL across development, test and production environments, including AWS RDS provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and maintenance, with a focus on high availability and disaster recovery.

You will collaborate with DevOps, security, and data engineering, automate DBA tasks with Python and CI/CD, and contribute to runbooks and standards while participating in on-call support.

Qualifications

5 to 7 years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration.
Strong PostgreSQL installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Experience managing PostgreSQL on AWS RDS.
Experience with high availability and replication.
Backups, restore, point in time recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
CDC and logical replication experience.
Database migrations and version upgrades.
Performance tuning and query optimization.
Security controls for access, roles, privileges, encryption and auditing.
Responding to production incidents and problem management.
GitHub or GitLab for source control and collaboration.

Responsibilities

Administer PostgreSQL across development, test, and production environments.
Manage AWS RDS for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance.
Design and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Multi-AZ deployments, replication, failover, and read replicas.
Manage backup, restore, PITR, retention, and recovery validation processes.
Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and cross environment refreshes.
Develop and maintain CDC solutions using AWS DMS, Debezium, logical replication, or equivalent technologies.
Tune database performance through indexing, vacuuming, statistics management, connection optimization, and configuration changes.
Monitor database health, capacity, availability, replication lag, storage, connections, and performance.
Troubleshoot incidents involving outages, replication, locking, deadlocks, backup failures, and performance degradation.
Implement security controls for access, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and credential rotation.
Automate DBA activities using shell scripting, Python, AWS services, and CI/CD tools.
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and database standards.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.
Participate in on call support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Skills

PostgreSQL DBA

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

High availability

Backups & PITR

CDC & replication

Migrations & upgrades

Performance tuning

Security controls

Incident response

GitHub/GitLab

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS RDS

Debezium

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Please Note: Apexon never asks candidates to make payments at any stage of the hiring process, including interviews, offer letters, training or background verification. If you receive suspicious recruitment communications or payment requests from individuals claiming to represent Apexon, do not make any payment and report the communication to alert@apexon.com .

All genuine openings are listed on our official Careers page.

Apexon is a digital first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human centric digital experiences. We have been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

Apexon brings together distinct core competencies in AI, analytics, app development, cloud, commerce, CX, data, DevOps, IoT, mobile, quality engineering, and UX, along with deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences, helping businesses capitalize on the unlimited opportunities digital offers.

Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital, Apexon has a global presence across four continents.

We are hiring for a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator opportunity.

Location: Remote

Position: 1

Work Arrangement: Remote

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator with 5 to 7 years of hands on PostgreSQL database administration experience, including managing PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in database administration, high availability, replication, backup and recovery, migrations, performance tuning, security, and production troubleshooting. This role will also involve automating DBA operations, supporting disaster recovery, and collaborating with application, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.

Required Skills

5 to 7 years of hands on PostgreSQL database administration experience.
Strong expertise in PostgreSQL installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Practical experience managing PostgreSQL on AWS RDS.
Experience with high availability and replication.
Hands on experience with backup, restore, point in time recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) and logical replication.
Experience with database migrations and version upgrades.
Strong knowledge of performance tuning and query optimization.
Experience implementing database security and access controls.
Experience responding to production incidents and managing problems.
Experience using GitHub or GitLab for source control and collaboration.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event driven automation.
Python programming for DBA automation and operational tooling.
Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration.
Familiarity with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.
Experience administering or supporting Oracle databases.
Knowledge of AWS Database Migration Service, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager, and S3.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Relevant PostgreSQL, AWS, or database certifications.

Key Responsibilities

Administer PostgreSQL databases across development, test, and production environments.
Manage AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance.
Design and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Multi-AZ deployments, replication, failover, and read replicas.
Manage backup, restore, point in time recovery, retention, and recovery validation processes.
Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and cross environment refreshes.
Develop and maintain CDC solutions using AWS DMS, Debezium, logical replication, or equivalent technologies.
Tune database performance through query analysis, indexing, vacuuming, statistics management, connection optimization, and configuration changes.
Monitor database health, capacity, availability, replication lag, storage, connections, and performance.
Troubleshoot incidents involving outages, replication, locking, deadlocks, backup failures, and performance degradation.
Implement security controls for access, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and credential rotation.
Automate DBA activities using shell scripting, Python, AWS services, and CI/CD tools.
Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and database standards.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.
Participate in on call support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Education Requirement

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Did you know that Apexon has been Certified™ by Great Place To Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, in each of the four regions in which it operates: USA for the seventh time in 2026, India for the tenth consecutive time in 2026, the UK for the fourth time in 2026, and Mexico for the second time in 2026.

Apexon is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and promoting diversity in the workplace. We take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity for all qualified individuals. Apexon strictly prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to gender, race, color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

You can read about our Job Applicant Privacy policy here: Job Applicant Privacy Policy on apexon.com.

Our Commitment to Environment

Actively contribute to Apexon's commitment to environmental responsibility by following sustainable practices and supporting ESG initiatives.

Our Perks and Benefits

Our benefits and rewards program has been thoughtfully designed to recognize your skills and contributions, elevate your learning experience, and provide care and support for you and your loved ones.

We also offer: