PostgreSQL DBA - Infrastructure Cloud (O Chazo)
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Job description
Innoit Consulting in Galicia, Spain is seeking a Senior DBA - Reliability Engineer to ensure high availability and performance of data infrastructure. The role requires deep expertise in database administration combined with SRE principles., * Own the design and maintenance of highly available database systems.
- Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.
- Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Establish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systems.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
Conocimientos
Database Administration SQL Skills PostgreSQL AWS RDS/Aurora Terraform Python or Bash Scripting Datadog Kubernetes Descripción del empleo, We welcome experienced DBAs who are eager to grow into SRE practices - full training and mentoring provided. What You'll Do
- Own the design and maintenance of highly available database systems (99.9%+ uptime), including installation, configuration, monitoring, and optimization
- Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning for production databases
- Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies with automated failover
- Establish and monitor SLOs and SLIs for database systems
- Partner with development teams on query optimization and performance reviews, acting as a reliability advocate embedded in engineering workflows
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; lead post-incident reviews and drive preventive measures
- Automate operational tasks through IaC and scripting; build self-service database provisioning tools
- Champion database reliability and DevOps practices across engineering teams, mentoring developers on reliability principles
Requirements
Responsibilities include maintaining highly available database systems, performance tuning, and implementing backup strategies. Candidates with 5+ years of experience and skills in PostgreSQL and AWS databases will excel. Opportunity for full training and mentoring available., * 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments.
- Advanced SQL skills including complex queries and performance optimization.
- Experience with AWS databases such as RDS and Aurora., * 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments
- Advanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization, and execution plan analysis
- PostgreSQL (required); MySQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis) are a plus
- AWS cloud databases: RDS and Aurora (required)
- Terraform for IaC (required)
- Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (APM, logs, dashboards, alerting), OpenTelemetry
- Python or Bash scripting for database automation; comfortable using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
- Kubernetes and Docker knowledge (preferred)
- Kafka or event streaming experience (preferred)
- Experience with high-availability clusters, replication, and