PostgreSQL DBA - #2192771

Role Title: PostgreSQL DBA

Location: Manchester, UK

Work setup: 2 days onsite/week

Job Type: Contract

Role description:

Maintenance & Optimization: Perform regular database maintenance activities and optimize database resources to ensure stability and efficiency.

- Observability & Reporting: Monitor database health, availability, and capacity, and provide regular operational and performance reports.

- Disaster Recovery & High Availability: Manage and validate disaster recovery and high availability solutions to ensure business continuity.

- Backup & Restore: Configure, monitor, and periodically test database backup and restore processes to ensure data recoverability and Application team requirement

- Performance Tuning: Analyze and tune database performance to improve query execution, resource utilization, and application responsiveness.

- Development & Incident Support: Provide database support for development activities and assist in troubleshooting and resolving production incidents.

- Proactive Issue Resolution: Identify potential database issues proactively and implement corrective actions before they impact business operations.

- Schema & Database Management: Manage database schemas, objects, and changes while ensuring adherence to governance standards.

- Database Security Architecture: Implement and maintain database security controls, access management, and compliance requirements to protect organizational data recommendation from Bank Security team.

Technologies:

PostgreSQL (Primary), MongoDB (Mandatory)

Terraform IaC

GitLab CI/CD / DevOps / GitHub Actions

Cloud DBaaS Platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)

Python, Shell Scripting, PowerShell

ServiceNow

Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK