Database Administrator

hackajob is collaborating with Eden Red Payment Solutions to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

• Manage, configure and optimise PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon Aurora and Oracle databases hosted on on-premise Exadatas and AWS RDS.
• Support the migration of high-performance, mission-critical databases from on-premise Exadatas to AWS Aurora Postgres.
• Support workloads on other database engines in AWS, including MySQL, MariaDB and SQL Server.
• Implement and maintain strong security standards to ensure compliance with PCI DSS and other regulatory requirements.
• Implement security best practices, including user management, encryption and auditing.
• Design and implement database schemas, partitioning strategies and indexing solutions.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery and scalability of database systems.
• Configure strong monitoring and management processes and tooling to help troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues in real time.

Your profile

Essential

• Hands‑on experience as a PostgreSQL and Oracle DBA in production environments.
• Significant experience of migrating database workloads to Postgres from Oracle.
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, including replication, clustering and indexing strategies, and a strong understanding of Postgres’ vacuum/MVCC process.
• Proven experience with query optimization and database performance tuning.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, and IAM.
• Solid understanding of database security principles and compliance frameworks.
• Experience implementing robust backup and recovery strategies.

Desirable

• Proficiency with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience of database replication tooling such as AWS DMS and Goldengate.
• Experience of collaborating with DevOps teams to integrate databases into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) frameworks like Terraform.

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