Senior PostgreSQL DBA - On-Site DC - Top Secret Clearance

Zachary Piper Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cigna Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

PTO

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Washington DC for on-site work. You will design, implement, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL environments, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance across AWS cloud databases and on-premises platforms.

The role requires 8+ years of experience, strong backup/recovery skills with pg_dump/pg_restore, WAL archiving, and high availability configurations, plus migration experience across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and AWS RDS/Aurora

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex database environments.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL (v13+) tuning, patching, capacity planning, and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments for performance and reliability.
• Administer PostgreSQL databases including configuration, tuning, backup, recovery, and HA solutions.
• Implement database security controls and coordinate changes with systems teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS Cloud

High Availability

Database Security

Migrations

Monitoring: Prometheus & Grafana

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

pg_dump/pg_restore

WAL archiving

Oracle migrations

AWS RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Washington DC for on-site work. You will design, implement, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL environments, ensuring data integrity, security, and performance across AWS cloud databases and on-premises platforms.

The role requires 8+ years of experience, strong backup/recovery skills with pg_dump/pg_restore, WAL archiving, and high availability configurations, plus migration experience across PostgreSQL, Oracle, and AWS RDS/Aurora