Senior Open-Source Database Engineer

Quest Staffing Solutions; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Staffing Solutions in Gauteng Midrand seeks an experienced Database Administrator to install, configure, and maintain open-source databases, ensuring security and high availability. The role collaborates with business, development, DevOps, infrastructure and security teams to keep critical systems available.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years with PostgreSQL and related tech, strong SQL tuning, Linux admin skills, and proficiency with Ansible/Terraform, Prometheus, and cloud DB services.

Qualifications

• Degree in STEM or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years’ production PostgreSQL/open-source DB experience.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture and tools.
• Experience with replication, high availability and DR.
• Experience with Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
• Experience with SAFe Agile.
• Experience with cloud DB services (AWS RDS, Azure, GCP).
• Certifications in PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure or Linux are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide installation, configuration, and maintenance of open-source databases.
• Support critical databases and ensure availability, performance and security.
• Design and implement HA, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Automate DBA tasks via scripts, IaC, and CI/CD tooling.
• Collaborate with Dev, DevOps, Security and IT teams on projects.

Skills

SQL tuning

PostgreSQL

Open-source DBs

High availability

Disaster recovery

Linux admin

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD

SRE practices

Communication

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Zabbix

JIRA

Confluence

Azure

AWS

GCP

Oracle RAC

Job description

Quest Staffing Solutions in Gauteng Midrand seeks an experienced Database Administrator to install, configure, and maintain open-source databases, ensuring security and high availability. The role collaborates with business, development, DevOps, infrastructure and security teams to keep critical systems available.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years with PostgreSQL and related tech, strong SQL tuning, Linux admin skills, and proficiency with Ansible/Terraform, Prometheus, and cloud DB services.