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# TELECOMMUTE Database Engineer

- **Company:** iTech US, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Information Systems, Databases, PostgreSQL, Operational Databases, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Google Cloud, Database Migration, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ff8f60e0-3b6e-4d9f-a44c-0da75fa0428e

## About the Role

* Strong hands-on PostgreSQL experience administration, performance tuning, schema design, as the person who owned a production database, not just someone who queried one
 * Experience with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) on Google Cloud Platform ideally provisioned and configured, not just used
 * Experience with Database Migration Service (DMS) and Datastream (or equivalent CDC tools) for migration and replication
 * Demonstrated on-call/incident-response experience for a database (not just for pipeline job failures)
 * Solid understanding of migration best practices minimal-downtime cutovers, validation, rollback strategies
 * Comfortable troubleshooting replication lag and data consistency issues

Preferred:

 * Experience with heterogeneous migrations (e.g., Oracle PostgreSQL)
 * Experience with Terraform or similar for database infrastructure automation, Education: At least a bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field is required for the project



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