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# Postgres SQL DB Admin with AWS

- **Company:** Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- **Location:** Chandler, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $110,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Performance Tuning, PostGIS, SQL Databases, System Availability, Terraform
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4ecee7e8e75175b0

## About the Role

* Primary Skill: Postgres SQL DB Admin, AWS
 * Secondary: Terraform, Open Shift Containers
 * Experience: Minimum 7 Years

Roles & Responsibilities

 * We're seeking a hands-on engineer to own PostgreSQL database operations on AWS-covering provisioning, performance tuning, high availability, automation, monitoring, and cost optimization.
 * The ideal candidate blends deep Postgres administration with AWS platform expertise, uses Infrastructure as Code, and thrives in a production support environment with strong incident management and continuous improvement mindset.
 * 5+ years of AWS experience
 * 5+ years Cloud/AWS/Terraform and POstgreSQL expertise

## Description

* Database Operations (PostgreSQL)
 * Administer and optimize PostgreSQL across Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL and EC2/self-managed (where applicable).
 * Perform performance tuning: query plans, indexes, vacuum/analyze, autovacuum tuning, connection management (PgBouncer), partitioning, statistics, and parameter tuning.
 * Own backup/restore, PITR, logical/physical replication (streaming, logical decoding) and cross-region DR strategies.
 * Implement and maintain HA (Multi-AZ, Aurora clusters, Patroni or equivalent), DR runbooks, and failover testing.
 * Lifecycle management: upgrades, patching, extensions (e.g., PostGIS, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements), and schema change orchestration (e.g., with Liquibase/Flyway).
 * Capacity planning: storage, IOPS, throughput; prevent bloat and hot spots. Experience on open-shift containers


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