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Senior PostgreSQL DBA
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94616, USA
Listed on 2026-08-06
Listing for:
Spectraforce Technologies
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-06
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Database Administrator, Disaster Recovery IT
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Senior PostgreSQL DBA (AWS Cloud & Migration Specialist)
Oakland, CA-Hybrid
6 months+ contract
We are seeking an experienced Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator with 12+ years of database administration experience to Migrate and support mission-critical database environments across on-premises and AWS cloud platforms.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for the administration, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, high availability, automation, and migration of PostgreSQL databases.
This role requires deep expertise in PostgreSQL database administration along with strong hands-on experience in AWS services, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), AWS CLI automation, monitoring, and large-scale database migration initiatives, including Oracle to AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL ,sqlserver to AWS RDS/Aurora PostgresSQL and On-Premises PostgreSQL to AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL.
The successful candidate will work closely with application teams, infrastructure teams, cloud architects, and project stakeholders to ensure highly available, secure, and performant database environments.
Required Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of Database Administration experience.
- 8+ years of PostgreSQL Database Administration experience.
- 5+ years of AWS & Azuew cloud database administration experience.
- Strong experience managing mission-critical production databases.
- Proven experience with PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- AWS Certified Database Specialty.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate/Professional.
- PostgreSQL Professional Certification.
- Experience with Enterprise Monitoring tools.
- Experience supporting large-scale utility, financial or regulated environments.
- Experience with Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized PostgreSQL environments.
- Experience with pg Bouncer, Pgpool-II, Patroni, or similar PostgreSQL HA solutions.
- Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator (AWS Cloud & Migration Specialist)
- PostgreSQL Administration & AWS Cloud Experience
- Extensive experience installing, configuring, upgrading, patching, and maintaining PostgreSQL databases in enterprise environments.
- Proven experience monitoring database performance, availability, capacity, and storage utilization to ensure optimal system health.
- Strong expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and execution plan analysis.
- Experience managing database security, user roles, permissions, access controls, encryption, and compliance requirements.
- Skilled in troubleshooting database issues, performing root cause analysis, and resolving production incidents.
- Experience supporting production, development, test, QA, and disaster recovery environments.
- Strong background in capacity planning, workload analysis, and database growth forecasting.
- Experience providing on-call support and managing critical database operations.
- Extensive experience implementing and managing PostgreSQL backup and recovery solutions.
- Hands-on experience with , , WAL Archiving, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR).
- Experience performing backup validation, restoration testing, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery procedures and documentation.
- Ensure adherence to RTO/RPO requirements and business continuity standards.
- Experience configuring and administering PostgreSQL replication technologies.
- Design, implement, and support High Availability (HA) and disaster recovery architectures.
- Monitor replication health, troubleshoot synchronization issues, and optimize replication performance.
- Execute failover, switchover, and recovery activities with minimal downtime.
- Design and support highly available PostgreSQL architectures across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
- AWS Database Administration Experience, Migration, Monitoring & Automation Experience
- Hands-on experience administering Amazon RDS PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and EC2-hosted PostgreSQL environments.
- Experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud database infrastructure within AWS.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize database performance using AWS-native monitoring tools.
- Implement database security controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance best practices.
- Experience managing AWS database backups, maintenance activities, upgrades, and patching.
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture, networking, IAM, KMS, and cloud operational best practices
- Extensive experience with AWS database administration, migration, monitoring, and automation across enterprise PostgreSQL environments.
- Hands-on experience utilizing AWS Lambda, Amazon Cloud Watch, Amazon SNS, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CLI to implement automated database management solutions.
- Experience developing automated database health checks, proactive monitoring, and…
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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