Senior PostgreSQL DBA — Remote, Cloud-Native Ops

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Health Savings Account contributions

Disability and life insurance

PTO 18 days (plus holidays)

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator in the United States. You will own PostgreSQL operations on AWS Aurora within a cloud-native data ecosystem, ensuring data flows across applications and event brokers with automation and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes reliability, high availability, DR planning, and collaboration with DevOps and architecture teams to optimize distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience in cloud environments.
• Strong production experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS.
• Expertise in PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of backup/recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Security and IAM integration, and credential management.
• Python and shell scripting for automation.
• AWS services: CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, Systems Manager, IAM, Secrets Manager.
• Event-driven data flows with Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ; Redis/ElastiCache caching.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/CloudFormation; CI/CD with Jenkins / GitLab / CodePipeline.
• Remote work capability and on-call production support.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora across envs and workloads.
• Own provisioning, tuning, deployments, upgrades, and migrations with green/rolling strategies.
• Monitor health and performance with CloudWatch, Performance Insights, AppDynamics, Grafana.
• Collaborate on data flows with Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ; support downstream analytics and search.
• Automate provisioning, backups, environment refreshes, alerts, and compliance reporting.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for schema changes and infra deployments (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Document configurations, procedures, and operational standards; run DR drills.

Skills

PostgreSQL performance tuning

Query optimization

Root-cause analysis

Automation with Python

Shell scripting

On-call production support

Documentation

Communication

Tools

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Amazon RDS

Kafka

Kinesis

RabbitMQ

Redis/ElastiCache

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator in the United States. You will own PostgreSQL operations on AWS Aurora within a cloud-native data ecosystem, ensuring data flows across applications and event brokers with automation and IaC practices.

The role emphasizes reliability, high availability, DR planning, and collaboration with DevOps and architecture teams to optimize distributed systems.