Postgres Cloud Database Administrator

7 days ago

Newport, Newport, United Kingdom Gaming Innovation Group Full time £60,000 - £100,000 per year
Postgres Cloud Database Administrator

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Malta

Reporting To: Mark Said


Description We are looking for a Cloud Database Administrator (DBA) with strong hands-on experience in AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) and automation tools like Terraform and Crossplane . The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, secure, and scalable database solutions in a cloud-native environment.

You will collaborate closely with architects, Infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, and application developers to ensure optimal database performance, cost efficiency, and reliability across multiple environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS and other AWS-managed data services.
  • Automate database provisioning, configuration, and scaling using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
  • Develop and maintain database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Optimize query performance, indexing strategies, and overall database health monitoring.
  • Ensure security and compliance by implementing security policies best practices, IAM roles, and auditing configurations.
  • Collaborate with development teams to support schema changes, partitioning strategies, and data migration processes.
  • Implement, monitor and troubleshoot replication, failover, and connection pooling.
  • Participate in on-call rotations for production support and incident response.
  • Continuously improve automation pipelines for database maintenance, scaling, and patch management.
  • Provide documentation, standards, and best practices for database operations.

Requirements Required Skills
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (PostgreSQL), with at least 2 years focused on PostgreSQL in a cloud environment.
  • Proven expertise with AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) — including setup, tuning, and scaling.
  • Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows.
  • Solid understanding of database replication, partitioning, backup/restore, and high availability concepts.
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch and Prometheus/Grafana).
  • Strong SQL and PL/pgSQL skills for troubleshooting and optimization.
  • Good understanding of networking, IAM policies, and AWS security best practices.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for database deployment automation.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Connection Pooling tools, Aurora PostgreSQL, or multi-region RDS deployments.
  • Knowledge of other relational databases (e.g MySQL, SQL Server).
  • Familiarity with scripting languages for automation.
    Experience in cost optimization and performance benchmarking in AWS.
  • Exposure to database deployments.

Benefits
  • Great career development opportunities
  • Hybrid working model
  • International Health Insurance
  • Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
  • Birthday Day Off
  • Me Time - 1 day off per year

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