Snr PostgresSQL DBA

Snr PostgresSQL DBA - Fully Remote Initially till Relocation can be sorted

Job Description

Our client, a leading financial services organisation, is seeking an experienced Senior Production DBA/Database Reliability Engineer to join their technology operations team. This role will focus on ensuring the availability, performance, resilience, and security of business-critical database platforms supporting high-volume transactional systems.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and support Oracle and/or PostgreSQL database environments across production and non-production platforms.
• Perform database installations, upgrades, migrations, patching activities, and ongoing life cycle management.
• Monitor and optimise database performance, ensuring high levels of availability and reliability.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes to support business continuity requirements.
• Lead database resilience initiatives, including high availability architecture and failover testing.
• Support operational incident management, troubleshooting complex database issues and conducting root cause analysis.
• Implement and maintain database security controls, monitoring, auditing, and access management procedures.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, development, and compliance teams to support operational excellence and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to automation initiatives through Scripting, infrastructure as code, and process improvement activities.
• Participate in capacity planning and future-state platform design to support continued business growth.

Experience Required

• Minimum 8 years of experience administering PostgreSQL databases within enterprise production environments.
• Proven experience supporting highly available, mission-critical transactional systems.
• Strong expertise in database performance tuning, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing and managing backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Handson experience with PostgreSQL replication technologies, or equivalent high availability solutions.
• Experience working within regulated environments with strong governance and security requirements.
• Strong Linux administration experience and Scripting skills.
• Experience supporting 24/7 production environments and managing major incident response activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with cloud database services across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud platforms.
• Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised database deployments.
• Knowledge of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) practices.
• Experience with automation technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with financial services, payments, fintech, insurance, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and database performance management solutions.
• Knowledge of security frameworks, audit requirements, and compliance standards.
• Python, Shell Scripting, or similar automation development experience.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent third-level qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant database, cloud, infrastructure, or security certifications would be advantageous.

Working Hours & Benefits

• Competitive salary package.
• Flexible hybrid location and hours/days
• Pension contribution.
• Healthcare benefits.
• Flexible and hybrid working options.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive working environment.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are interested in this role, please apply with your updated CV