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# PostgreSQL DBA

- **Company:** Searchability
- **Location:** Corsham, UK
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Database Security, Shard (Database Architecture), Failover, JSON, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, PostGIS, Query Optimization, Backup and Restore, SC Clearance, Database Installation, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5890488465

## About the Role

You will need strong hands-on experience across both technologies, with the ability to confidently talk through your experience during a technical interview., * Strong hands-on DBA experience across PostgreSQL and Oracle

 * Recent and meaningful PostgreSQL DBA experience - this must go beyond basic exposure, installation or support-level knowledge
 * Strong hands-on experience with Oracle 19c or 21c
 * Experience with PostgreSQL performance optimisation, including index tuning, execution plan analysis, query optimisation, sharding and partitioning
 * Experience managing database clusters and failover
 * Strong data modelling experience
 * Experience working closely with development and infrastructure teams
 * Experience with PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector, PostGIS or AGE would be beneficial
 * Additional MSSQL experience would be useful
 * SC clearance as a minimum, with DV targeted
 * Ability to meet the required UK residency criteria for security clearance

Please ensure your CV clearly outlines your hands-on responsibilities and experience with Oracle 19c/21c and PostgreSQL, as candidates will need to demonstrate their experience across both technologies during the technical interview.

## Description

You'll take ownership of the application database environment across multiple cloud and on-premise environments, working closely with developers, data pipeline engineers, data scientists and infrastructure teams., * Managing PostgreSQL database clusters across multiple environments

 * Monitoring, tuning and optimising PostgreSQL database performance
 * Hands-on administration and maintenance of Oracle 19c or 21c
 * Managing data migrations between database instances, including offline environments
 * Owning data models and the lifecycle of data within the database
 * Designing, creating and managing schemas, tables and views
 * Performance optimisation including index tuning, execution plan analysis, query optimisation and partitioning
 * Managing database clusters and failover strategies
 * Defining and implementing backup and recovery strategies
 * Managing database security, roles, permissions and RLS controls
 * Working with infrastructure teams on database installation and patching
 * Working with data pipeline engineers and data scientists to ingest a wide range of data sources
 * Applying best practices for storing JSON objects within PostgreSQL


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