Remote Postgres/Kubernetes DBA

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep hands-on PostgreSQL experience in Linux production environments, including architecture, configuration, replication, backup/recovery, performance tuning, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating PostgreSQL as a stateful workload inside Kubernetes, rather than only using cloud-managed database services.
• Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting experience across pods, StatefulSets, persistent volumes/PVCs, storage, networking, resource constraints and failure scenarios.
• Experience implementing highly available PostgreSQL architectures, including primary/standby replication, failover, promotion and recovery.
• Hands-on experience with a PostgreSQL Kubernetes operator or HA orchestration technology, such as CloudNativePG/CNPG, Charmed PostgreSQL, Patroni, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with Helm/Helm charts and Kubernetes deployment configuration.
• Strong Linux administration/troubleshooting experience supporting 24x7 highly available systems.
• Experience automating deployment and operational processes using Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform or similar tooling.
• Experience designing backup, restore, disaster recovery and data migration processes for PostgreSQL.
• Ability to build a solution from the ground up, document the architecture and work with an established Kubernetes/platform engineering team to operationalize it.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience running PostgreSQL on on-premises Kubernetes.
• Experience supporting databases in immutable infrastructure environments.
• Patroni experience.
• Charmed PostgreSQL / Canonical / Juju experience.
• Experience building an internal Database-as-a-Service / PostgreSQL-as-a-Service platform.
• Experience turning manual deployment processes into repeatable/self-service automation.

Job Description

This engineer will bridge the gap between an established Kubernetes/platform team and PostgreSQL database engineering.

The initial priority is to design and stand up a production-ready PostgreSQL service running as a containerized, stateful workload on an existing on-premises Kubernetes environment. The platform must support high availability, replication, persistent storage, backup/recovery and reliable failover while operating within an immutable infrastructure model.

This person will partner closely with Kubernetes engineers but will own the PostgreSQL architecture and database-service layer, including PostgreSQL deployment, HA/replication design, operators, storage integration, Helm configuration, troubleshooting and automation.

The first phase focuses on creating a reliable PostgreSQL-on-Kubernetes solution that can provision database environments for internal clients. Later phases will focus on automating and standardizing provisioning so environments can be created repeatedly and ultimately exposed through a self-service experience.

This is a hands-on engineering/build role rather than a traditional DBA maintenance position.