Senior PostgreSQL DBA – On-Site DC, TS Clearance, AWS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Cigna Medical

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401K

PTO

Sick leave

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions in Washington, D.C. seeks a Senior Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL environments. The role focuses on security, data integrity, and high availability within a DOJ program, with on-site support in Washington, D.C.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong PostgreSQL expertise (v13+), and hands-on cloud migration experience—especially AWS RDS/Aurora. Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience designing, implementing, maintaining complex database environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise database environments with focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Administer PostgreSQL databases (v13+), including configuration, tuning, patching, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and high availability.
• Implement database security controls and coordinate changes; support system integration initiatives.
• Monitor database health, troubleshoot performance issues, optimize queries and indexing strategies, and establish alerting solutions.
• Support migrations, cloud modernization efforts, and AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL environments.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS/Aurora

Performance tuning

High availability

Security best practices

Query optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

pg_dump/pg_restore

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions in Washington, D.C. seeks a Senior Database Administrator to design, implement, and optimize enterprise PostgreSQL environments. The role focuses on security, data integrity, and high availability within a DOJ program, with on-site support in Washington, D.C.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, strong PostgreSQL expertise (v13+), and hands-on cloud migration experience—especially AWS RDS/Aurora. Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills are required.