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PostgreSQL Developer / Cloud Engineer / Database Developer

iPeople Infosystems LLCPlano, TX🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationPlano, TX, United States
MySQLOracleSQLAWSETLAzurePostgreSQLSQL ServerCI/CD

Job description

Job Title: PostgreSQL Developer / Cloud Engineer / Database Developer
Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid)

Type: Contract Position

Job description :

Experienced PostgreSQL Developer / Cloud Engineer with 10 years of professional experience to support database development, migration, optimization, and cloud-based platform engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong PostgreSQL expertise, hands-on experience with database migrations, and solid cloud engineering experience across modern infrastructure and deployment environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain PostgreSQL databases, schemas, tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, functions, and triggers
  • Plan and execute database migrations from legacy relational database platforms to PostgreSQL
  • Assess source and target database environments and identify migration risks, dependencies, and compatibility issues
  • Convert and optimize database objects, queries, and data models during migration efforts
  • Perform data transformation, validation, reconciliation, and post-migration testing
  • Tune PostgreSQL performance through indexing, query optimization, execution plan analysis, and database configuration
  • Support backup, restore, replication, and high availability strategies
  • Troubleshoot database performance issues, migration defects, and production incidents
  • Collaborate with application developers, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to support platform modernization
  • Build and support cloud-based database and application workloads
  • Implement and support infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
  • Work with cloud networking, monitoring, access control, and security best practices
  • Support production systems and participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis
  • Document technical designs, migration plans, operating procedures, and support processes

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience in PostgreSQL development, database engineering, or related roles
  • Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL development and administration
  • Proven experience leading or supporting database migration projects
  • Proficiency in SQL, database design, normalization, and relational data modeling
  • Experience with stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, and indexes
  • Strong understanding of query optimization, performance tuning, and execution plans
  • Experience with ETL, data transformation, and data validation
  • Knowledge of backup, restore, replication, and high availability concepts
  • Familiarity with transactions, locking, isolation levels, and concurrency control
  • Cloud engineering experience supporting workloads in AWS, AZURE
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and deployment automation
  • Knowledge of cloud security, networking, monitoring, and scaling practices
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues in database and cloud environments
  • Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience migrating from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or other RDBMS platforms to PostgreSQL
  • Experience with PostgreSQL extensions and advanced features
  • Experience with large-scale, business-critical, or enterprise migration projects
  • Experience supporting cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps practices

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