Database Administrator (Postgres, Observability & DBaaS)

Essential Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years hands-on database administration in a large enterprise, with strong PostgreSQL depth; financial services exposure preferred.
• Demonstrable expertise in database observability tooling — Datadog, OEM, Grafana or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of cloud database services and managed-database operating models on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Automation capability in Python and Ansible; SQL and Shell scripting.
• Linux/Unix administration proficiency, with a working understanding of networking and storage.
• Experience supporting change and incident management through ServiceNow.
• Strong troubleshooting discipline and clear written communication.

Desirable

• Exposure to Oracle (RAC, Data Guard) and MSSQL Always On.
• Familiarity with modern database and lakehouse platforms — Databricks, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
• Public cloud or PostgreSQL certification.