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# PostgreSQL DBA

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Mechanicsburg, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, CompTIA Security+, Databases, PostgreSQL, Oracle (Applications), Software Tools, Computer Performance, System Software, SC Clearance, Vmware
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/ff3e48de-1198-4a0a-9087-90a1989c9c28/postgresql-dba

## About the Role

Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Must be able to work in Mechanicsburg, PA 2 times per week.
Experience with Postgres and Oracle.
COMPTIA Security + required
4+ years of overall professional experience.

## Description

As a Postgres Database Administrator, you will have the opportunity to do the following: Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) support for Oracle and PostgreSQL in a traditional on-premise VMware environment and an AWS Cloud environment.

 * Provide PostgreSQL database management and life cycle support for a collaborative engineering tools environment.
 * Implement the conversion of existing databases to meet new release requirements.
 * Evaluate the effectiveness of database management technology and investigates problems and inefficiencies in a well-established data base environment.
 * Determine the impact of new or revised software on system operations and applications.
 * Investigate factors such as amount of storage space consumed, access times, frequencies of reads and writes, and problems encountered by other application and systems programmers using the DBMS software.
 * Evaluate and determines alternatives, and initiates corrective action to recover/restore data and return system back to normal operations.
 * Administer day-to-day database operation and maintenance in an environment in which the system software is typically available from vendors and widely used.
 * Ensure the database efficiently collects, stores, and processes data.
 * Run utility routines/programs and investigate when reports indicate a decline in computer performance.
 * Develop and maintain security procedures to guard against unauthorized intrusion into databases.
 * Develop procedures and recommend methods to insure rapid access to all data.
 * Analyze use of archived data and develop ways to insure optimum use of existing systems.
 * Provide assistance to programmers/analysts in program development, testing, and implementation of modified programs.