Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Hybrid, Cloud & DR

Alter Domus; Town of Carmel (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Birthday day off

Professional accreditations support

Employee Share Plan

Job summary

Alter Domus is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join its Global IT Operations team in Carmel, Indiana. You will be the senior technical owner of the PostgreSQL platform powering fund administration and reporting applications, ensuring availability, performance, recoverability, and security.

In this role you will manage day-to-day administration, lead incident RCAs, plan upgrades with minimal downtime, and drive change with robust release documentation.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years administering production PostgreSQL.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration of the PostgreSQL estate across cloud and on‑premises.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for database incidents and document post‑incident reports.
• Plan and execute patching and major‑version upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Take database changes through change management with tested rollback and release docs.
• Diagnose and tune performance (indexing, partitioning, PgBouncer).
• Design, implement, and test backups and recovery (pgBackRest, cloud snapshots).
• Build high availability with streaming/logical replication and automated failover.
• Own DR planning including cross‑region replication and DR tests.

Skills

PostgreSQL admin

AWS PostgreSQL

Linux scripting

English fluency

Regulated env

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

pgBackRest

pg_basebackup

Job description

Alter Domus is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to join its Global IT Operations team in Carmel, Indiana. You will be the senior technical owner of the PostgreSQL platform powering fund administration and reporting applications, ensuring availability, performance, recoverability, and security.

In this role you will manage day-to-day administration, lead incident RCAs, plan upgrades with minimal downtime, and drive change with robust release documentation.