PostgreSQL DBA - Infrastructure Cloud (Marzán)
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Innoit Consulting in Monterroso is seeking a Senior DBA - Reliability Engineer to join their Platform team. This role requires deep database administration skills combined with SRE principles to ensure high availability and performance of the data infrastructure., The ideal candidate will design and optimize database systems, conduct performance tuning, and mentor development teams in reliability practices. Candidates must have significant experience with PostgreSQL and AWS databases., * Design and maintain highly available database systems with 99.9% uptime.
- Conduct performance tuning and backup strategies.
- Partner with development teams as a reliability advocate.
Conocimientos
Database Administration SQL Optimization PostgreSQL AWS RDS/Aurora Terraform Monitoring & Observability Tools Python Docker 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
- 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments.
- Advanced SQL skills: complex queries, stored procedures, performance optimization.
- PostgreSQL and AWS cloud databases knowledge required., * 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