Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Remote (AWS RDS, HA)

Apexon; Clearwater (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

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

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.