Postgres Cloud Database Administrator

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