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PostgreSQL DBA

Levy Global
London, UK
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
£74,273.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Query Performance Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Databases Continuous Integration Linux PostgreSQL Performance Tuning Backup and Restore System Availability Terraform

Job description

I’m currently working on a fantastic opportunity for a strong hands-on PostgreSQL DBA contractor to join a highly technical infrastructure team supporting complex production environments., * PostgreSQL database administration and production support

  • Performance tuning and optimisation
  • High availability, replication, backup & disaster recovery
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting database issues
  • Supporting migrations/upgrades and platform improvements
  • Working closely with infrastructure and engineering teams
  • Ensuring security, reliability and scalability across the database environment

Tech environment:

  • PostgreSQL

  • Linux

  • Cloud platforms - primarily Amazon Web Services / Aurora / RDS

  • CI/CD, Terraform and automation tooling exposure beneficial

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience, Ideally over 7 years of experience
  • Experience supporting large-scale or high-availability environments
  • Good understanding of query performance and PostgreSQL internals
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced engineering-driven environments
  • Great Communication skills

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