Job Title: Database Administrators
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Employer: 4Consulting, Inc
Position Type: Full Time
Worksite: Remote
Position Summary
4Consulting, Inc is seeking a qualified Database Administrators to support technology consulting, application development, systems analysis, testing, data management, cybersecurity, infrastructure, or project delivery services for client projects. The selected candidate will perform duties consistent with the client’s project requirements and company delivery standards.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The candidate will be responsible for:
Administer PostgreSQL databases across multiple environments, including provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, scaling, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of AWS RDS database services.
Design, implement, and maintain high-availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions, including multi-AZ deployments, failover, read replicas, point-in-time recovery, and recovery validation. Support database migrations, version upgrades, consolidation, and cross-environment refreshes.
Monitor and optimize database performance through query analysis, indexing, vacuuming, statistics management, connection optimization, and configuration tuning. Troubleshoot production incidents involving outages, replication lag, locking, deadlocks, backup failures, and performance degradation, and perform root-cause analysis.
Implement database security and access controls, including roles, privileges, encryption, auditing, and credential management. Develop automation using shell scripting, Python, AWS services, and CI/CD tools; maintain operational documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and database standards.
Minimum Qualifications
The position requires:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience:
5–7 years of hands-on PostgreSQL database administration experience, including practical experience managing PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS.
Experience with high availability, replication, backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery testing, CDC, logical replication, database migrations, version upgrades, performance tuning, security, and production incident management.
Technical Skills:
PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, SQL, Shell Scripting, Python, Logical Replication/CDC, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins/CI/CD
Business / Domain Skills:
Experience supporting enterprise database environments across development, testing, and production, including business-critical applications requiring high availability, data integrity, and operational continuity.
Experience supporting database lifecycle operations, including provisioning, migration, upgrades, consolidation, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and production environment maintenance.
Experience supporting enterprise data replication, change data capture, and data synchronization processes to maintain consistent and reliable data across applications and environments.
Experience collaborating with application development, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and data engineering teams to resolve production issues, maintain database service levels, support operational requirements, and improve database reliability.
Communication:
Ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders.
Documentation:
Ability to prepare project documentation, status updates, and deliverables.
Work Authorization:
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship may be considered where permitted by company policy and project requirements.
Certification Required
None
Travel Required
None
Supervisory Role
No
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, event-driven automation, and Python-based database administration tools.
Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, AWS Database Migration Service, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager, S3, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Experience administering or supporting Oracle databases. Relevant PostgreSQL, AWS, or database administration certifications are preferred.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
4Consulting, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, citizenship status, immigration status were protected by law, or any other legally protected status. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related qualifications, experience, skills, availability, and ability to perform the essential duties of the position.
