Senior Systems Integration & PostgreSQL Database Engineer

NTT DATA; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Database Administrator in Dallas to manage PostgreSQL with secondary SQL Server duties, covering on‑prem and cloud deployments. You’ll drive performance tuning, backups, replication, and DR planning while supporting enterprise databases in a hybrid environment.

The role emphasizes installation, upgrades, maintenance automation, and HA/DR design, with a focus on stability and security for mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• We are seeking a mid‑level Database Administrator with strong PostgreSQL expertise and working knowledge of SQL Server.
• Experience managing enterprise databases across on‑prem and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to design backup/recovery, replication, and high availability strategies.
• Proficiency in query tuning, indexing, and routine maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases in prod and non-prod environments.
• Perform PostgreSQL installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and version management.
• Manage PostgreSQL deployments across IaaS and PaaS on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Monitor health, troubleshoot performance, deadlocks, replication issues, and storage utilization.
• Design and validate backup/recovery strategies using pg_dump, pgBackRest, and WAL archiving.
• Support HA/DR for PostgreSQL; capacity planning and proactive health checks.
• Provide secondary administration for SQL Server; develop SQL and PL/pgSQL scripts.
• Automate routine database maintenance.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Cloud platforms

High availability

Backup & recovery

Performance tuning

PL/pgSQL

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a Database Administrator in Dallas to manage PostgreSQL with secondary SQL Server duties, covering on‑prem and cloud deployments. You’ll drive performance tuning, backups, replication, and DR planning while supporting enterprise databases in a hybrid environment.

The role emphasizes installation, upgrades, maintenance automation, and HA/DR design, with a focus on stability and security for mission-critical systems.