PostgreSQL DBA

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor, and support PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
• Perform performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
• Manage HA/DR, replication, failover, upgrades, and database migrations.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, locks, deadlocks, replication lag, and production incidents.
• Administer PostgreSQL on AWS RDS/Aurora and support cloud migrations.

Required Skills

• 5–8 years of hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture, SQL tuning, VACUUM, WAL, MVCC, replication, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, and AWS DMS.
• Strong knowledge of backup/recovery, PITR, HA/DR, security, and database monitoring.
• Experience with Linux and Shell/Python scripting.
• Good communication, troubleshooting, and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have: Terraform/Ansible, CI/CD, PostgreSQL migration and AWS certification.