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# Database Engineer - PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)

- **Company:** Concept Solutions
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Backup Devices, Databases, PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Change Data Capture, Database Migration, Amazon Relational Database Service, Debezium
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7c7d76971281d417

## About the Role

* Minimum of 4 years of experience administering PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
 * Hands-on experience with database migrations and performance tuning.
 * Experience with Amazon RDS or equivalent managed database services.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience with Debezium or PostgreSQL logical replication.
 * Familiarity with AWS GovCloud environments.
 * Active Secret security clearance.

## Description

The Database Engineer will play an important role in maintaining and optimizing PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon RDS, supporting database migrations, improving performance and availability, and collaborating with the platform engineering team.

 * Manage application-level database administration for three PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon RDS.
 * Plan and execute database migrations, performance tuning, and optimization activities.
 * Verify database backups and support improvements to database availability and reliability, including a single-Availability Zone (AZ) instance.
 * Support the platform engineering team with projection schemas and change-data-capture (CDC) configuration.
 * Collaborate with technical teams to ensure database solutions support application modernization and ongoing production operations.