PostgreSQL Database Administrator — Remote, Eastern Time

Job overview

The PostgreSQL Database Administrator — Remote, Eastern Time role is fully remote in the United States, aligned to the Eastern time zone. Compensation is not specified. The role maintains database environments across production, staging, and development. The administrator builds reliable, scalable, and secure PostgreSQL operations through performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, and database security. The role also supports migrations, production incident response, automation, documentation, and technical guidance for junior DBAs, including participation in an on-call rotation.

What you'll do

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL instances
• design backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery strategies
• monitor and tune performance
• implement replication and high availability
• manage database security
• plan migrations and capacity
• automate DBA tasks
• collaborate on schema and query design
• troubleshoot production incidents
• maintain runbooks
• participate in on-call rotation
• mentor junior DBAs.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

postgresql database administrator

remote us

eastern time zone

yantran

postgresql

performance tuning

high availability

replication

backup and recovery

database security

on-call rotation

8 years experience

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires eight years of hands-on PostgreSQL production administration; on-call rotation is required. AWS RDS/Aurora, Terraform, Ansible, and other database platforms are preferred.

About the employer

Yantran LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.