Senior PostgreSQL DBA - Cloud, HA & Performance

Alrek Business Solutions Inc; Wood Dale (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Client is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, optimize, and secure enterprise PostgreSQL environments. You will support on‑prem and cloud platforms, implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery, and collaborate with development, infra, cloud, and security teams.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, security modeling, and automation to ensure uptime and efficient resource use in mission‑critical applications.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of PostgreSQL administration in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience with migrations including Oracle to PostgreSQL, SQL Server to PostgreSQL, and Azure migrations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of PostgreSQL-related experience.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, clone, and maintain PostgreSQL environments on‑prem and cloud.
• Monitor health, performance, and availability across production, staging, and development.
• Manage schemas, tables, indexes, partitions, views, functions, and procedures.
• Develop backup and disaster recovery procedures and perform restores as needed.
• Optimize queries, indexing, and cloud database cost/performance.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Cloud environments

Migration experience

Problem solving

Communication skills

Organization skills

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years PostgreSQL experience

Tools

Linux (RHEL)

Windows Server

Azure migrations

Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations

Job description

Client is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, optimize, and secure enterprise PostgreSQL environments. You will support on‑prem and cloud platforms, implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery, and collaborate with development, infra, cloud, and security teams.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, security modeling, and automation to ensure uptime and efficient resource use in mission‑critical applications.