Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator

6 days ago

Athens, Attica, Ελλάδα Cegeka Πλήρης απασχόληση
We are looking for an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator to manage, optimize, and support our PostgreSQL database environments. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with high-availability architectures, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and database automation. 🎯 You will:
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Design and manage high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify bottlenecks.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, and database configurations.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and replication strategies.
• Implement database security, user management, and auditing.
• Perform database migrations and version upgrades with minimal downtime.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting (Ansible, etc.).
• Collaborate with developers to improve database performance and schema design.
• Participate in on-call support for critical production environments. ✅

Requirements:
• 4+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, query planner, indexing, and vacuuming.
• Experience with streaming replication, logical replication, and failover solutions.
• Experience with backup and recovery tools such as Commvault or Barman.
• Expertise in performance monitoring and tuning.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Strong SQL skills and troubleshooting abilities.
• Experience with PostgreSQL upgrades and migrations.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and managed PostgreSQL services.
• Experience with Patroni, PgBouncer, HAProxy, or similar HA technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).

What we offer
• 22 Annual Vacation days, 3 sick days that are not carried over the next year (no medical certificate required), plus a seniority day added every 3 years in the company
• Meal tickets
• Private Medical Insurance
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We offer
flexibility when it comes to WFH policy
• Wellbeing at the center
- we know that there is more to our lives than our jobs, therefore we make sure to tackle wellbeing aspects of our day to day lives through specialized sessions, webinars and internal programs according to our employee's input
• In close cooperation is a value we live by, through #MomentsThatMatter: monthly hangout parties, team buildings, gamified online experiences
• Many more to come :)