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# Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator

- **Company:** Infostretch Corporation
- **Location:** Clearwater, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Databases, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Database Security, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Event-Driven Programming, Failover, Github, Design of User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Oracle Databases, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Runbook, Shell Script, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, System Availability, Database Performance, Change Data Capture, Indexer, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Database Migration, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Debezium, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-postgresql-database-administrator-clearwater-fl--f90a5903-567c-4be2-9a4f-3adbb08aebc5

## About the Role

Database Administration, PostgreSQL, Business Transformation, Biology, DevOps, Quality Engineering, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Development, We are seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator with 5 to 7 years of hands on PostgreSQL database administration experience, including managing PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in database administration, high availability, replication, backup and recovery, migrations, performance tuning, security, and production troubleshooting. This role will also involve automating DBA operations, supporting disaster recovery, and collaborating with application, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.

Required Skills

 * 5 to 7 years of hands on PostgreSQL database administration experience.
 * Strong expertise in PostgreSQL installation, configuration, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
 * Practical experience managing PostgreSQL on AWS RDS.
 * Experience with high availability and replication.
 * Hands on experience with backup, restore, point in time recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
 * Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) and logical replication.
 * Experience with database migrations and version upgrades.
 * Strong knowledge of performance tuning and query optimization.
 * Experience implementing database security and access controls.
 * Experience responding to production incidents and managing problems.
 * Strong shell scripting skills.
 * Experience using GitHub or GitLab for source control and collaboration.

Preferred Skills

 * Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
 * Knowledge of AWS Lambda and event driven automation.
 * Python programming for DBA automation and operational tooling.
 * Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline integration.
 * Familiarity with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.
 * Experience administering or supporting Oracle databases.
 * Knowledge of AWS Database Migration Service, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager, and S3.
 * Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
 * Relevant PostgreSQL, AWS, or database certifications., Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.

## Description

* Administer PostgreSQL databases across development, test, and production environments.
 * Manage AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, and maintenance.
 * Design and support high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including Multi-AZ deployments, replication, failover, and read replicas.
 * Manage backup, restore, point in time recovery, retention, and recovery validation processes.
 * Support database migrations, upgrades, consolidation, and cross environment refreshes.
 * Develop and maintain CDC solutions using AWS DMS, Debezium, logical replication, or equivalent technologies.
 * Tune database performance through query analysis, indexing, vacuuming, statistics management, connection optimization, and configuration changes.
 * Monitor database health, capacity, availability, replication lag, storage, connections, and performance.
 * Troubleshoot incidents involving outages, replication, locking, deadlocks, backup failures, and performance degradation.
 * Implement security controls for access, roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and credential rotation.
 * Automate DBA activities using shell scripting, Python, AWS services, and CI/CD tools.
 * Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and database standards.
 * Collaborate with application, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams.
 * Participate in on call support, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement., Please Note: Apexon never asks candidates to make payments at any stage of the hiring process, including interviews, offer letters, training or background verification. If you receive suspicious recruitment communications or payment requests from individuals claiming to represent Apexon, do not make any payment and report the communication to alert@apexon.com.