Senior PostgreSQL Engineer - Cloud, HA & Automation

Vantor Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Engineer to support a large-scale U.S. Government analytics platform. You will design, deploy, and optimize PostgreSQL environments, ensuring availability, performance, and security while collaborating across engineering, data, and DevSecOps teams in a cloud-enabled setting.

The role requires 14+ years of relevant experience, US citizenship with TS/SCI clearance, Linux automation skills, and experience with PostgreSQL extensions and CI/CD tooling.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and active TS/SCI clearance required for consideration.
• 14+ years of relevant professional technical experience in databases, infrastructure, or data engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years administering PostgreSQL environments and related tooling.
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance tuning, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability.
• Proficiency automating DB administration with Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience with cloud, hybrid, containerized, or enterprise production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain PostgreSQL environments for mission-critical apps.
• Tune performance via queries, indexing, partitioning, and capacity planning.
• Maintain HA, replication, backups, DR, and monitoring solutions.
• Develop database automation using scripting and IaC tools.
• Collaborate with software, data engineering, and DevSecOps teams to support deployments.

Skills

PostgreSQL performance tuning

Backup and recovery

High-availability architectures

Linux production environments

Scripting (bash, python)

Cloud, hybrid, containerized

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Security/compliance (NIST RMF, FedRAMP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostGIS

TimescaleDB

pg_partman

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Vantor is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Engineer to support a large-scale U.S. Government analytics platform. You will design, deploy, and optimize PostgreSQL environments, ensuring availability, performance, and security while collaborating across engineering, data, and DevSecOps teams in a cloud-enabled setting.

The role requires 14+ years of relevant experience, US citizenship with TS/SCI clearance, Linux automation skills, and experience with PostgreSQL extensions and CI/CD tooling.