Senior PostgreSQL Platform Operations Manager

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a PostgreSQL Database Administrator to manage high-performance, multi-terabyte databases in Madison, WI. You will oversee day-to-day operations, tuning, backups, PITR, and upgrades, with cloud exposure on AWS or GCP and containerized deployments using Kubernetes.

You will partner with engineers and IT teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalable database infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.

Qualifications

• Proficient PostgreSQL expert with architecture knowledge.
• Experience with PITR, backups, upgrades, and high-availability.
• Strong SQL tuning, monitoring, and performance analysis.
• Hands-on with cloud PostgreSQL on AWS/GCP and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of day-to-day PostgreSQL operations and monitoring.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, locks, and long-running queries.
• Implement backup/restore strategies and PITR plans.
• Plan and execute major/minor version upgrades and migrations.
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes-based deployments.

Skills

PostgreSQL architecture

Backup & PITR

Version upgrades

Replication & HA

Monitoring & performance

Config & system catalogs

Maintenance (vacuum/ analyze/ reindex)

Cloud deployments (AWS RDS/EC2, GCP)

HA/DR tools (Repmgr, Pgpool, pgBackRec

Kubernetes

Shell/Python scripting

Multi-terabyte production DBs

Learning agility

Communication across teams

Large-scale DB infrastructure

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a PostgreSQL Database Administrator to manage high-performance, multi-terabyte databases in Madison, WI. You will oversee day-to-day operations, tuning, backups, PITR, and upgrades, with cloud exposure on AWS or GCP and containerized deployments using Kubernetes.

You will partner with engineers and IT teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalable database infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.