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PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Manchester, England, gb🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $50,000–$54,000🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Hands-on PostgreSQL DBA managing production operations, migrations, and high-availability clusters across on-premises and GCP infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Builds

Production database services, HA clusters, and automated environments for internal business needs

Domain

Cloud & On-premises Database Administration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

PostgreSQL administration, EDB Postgres/EFM/Barman/PEM/TPA, streaming replication, performance tuning, Linux administration, Ansible, Git, PgBouncer, GCP/AWS

Preferred skills

Patroni, Terraform, Bash/Python scripting, MariaDB/MySQL administration

Technologies

PostgreSQL, EDB Postgres, EFM, Barman, PEM, TPA, Ansible, Spacelift, Git, GitHub, Prometheus, Grafana, PgBouncer, GCP, AWS, Linux

Responsibilities

Administer full database lifecycle including installation, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning; Configure and operate EDB Failover Manager clusters for high availability; Manage backups and recovery using Barman with point-in-time recovery; Monitor and alert on database health using PEM; Automate environment provisioning and configuration management; Tune SQL performance and database internals; Execute migrations and consolidations with minimal downtime; Participate in on-call rotation for production incidents.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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