Hiring: Senior Database Administrator - PostgreSQL Company: Alter Domus Location: Carmel, IN Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:59:50 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Ansible, Aurora, Azure, Bash, CI/CD, Change Management, CloudWatch, Consul, Grafana, HAProxy, Kubernetes, Linux, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, RDS, REST, SQL Server, Terraform About the job Experience: •7 years administering production PostgreSQL, including databases that the business depends on around the clock. •At least 7 years administering production PostgreSQL, including databases that the business depends on around the clock. Required Skills: •PostgreSQL across AWS (RDS and Aurora), Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and self-managed instances on Linux in our Chicago and Luxembourg data centers. •A global platform supporting business-critical fund administration, accounting and reporting applications, used across our offices worldwide. •A database team you will work within and help shape, alongside infrastructure, cloud, network, security, application and third-party vendor teams. •A regulated environment with formal change management, production control and disaster recovery programs — and the audit and regulatory reporting that comes with them. •Own day-to-day administration of the PostgreSQL estate: provisioning, configuration, monitoring and lifecycle management across cloud and on-premises instances. •Act as senior escalation point for database incidents. Lead root-cause analysis, drive permanent corrective actions rather than repeat workarounds, and write the post-incident record. •Plan and execute patching and major-version upgrades with minimal or zero downtime, choosing appropriately between pg_upgrade, logical replication and dump/restore. •Take database changes through our change management and CAB process with reviewed scripts, tested rollback and clear release documentation. Qualifications: •None of the following are required. Tell us about any you have. •PostgreSQL HA tooling: Patroni, etcd or Consul, HAProxy or Keepalived. •Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL. •PgBackRest at scale, including incremental and differential strategies and retention policy design. •Containerized PostgreSQL on Kubernetes — persistent storage, backups, failover and operational troubleshooting. •Terraform, Ansible or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling. •A background in Oracle or SQL Server, and experience migrating from them to PostgreSQL. •Financial services, fund administration or another regulated industry. •You stay calm and methodical under production pressure, and your attention to detail holds up when it matters most. •You are comfortable pushing back on a risky change and explaining why — and equally comfortable finding a safe way to get it done. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!