Database Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Database Administrator in Sandy, UT.

Summary:
We're looking for a Senior Database Engineer with deep Postgres and TimescaleDB expertise to architect, optimize, and evolve our data infrastructure for performance, reliability, and insight generation.

Key Responsibilities:
* Database Administrator will design and optimize Postgres/TimescaleDB schemas, aggregates, and calculated fields for time-series and relational workloads
* Develop and manage advanced data aggregation pipelines for large-scale IoT telemetry
* Collaborate with data scientists to build and deploy clustering, forecasting, and classification models in the future Data Lab environment
* Participate in microservice development, ensuring seamless integration with backend APIs and SaaS components
* Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to refine requirements, prototype solutions, and translate use cases into database-driven capabilities
* As a Database Administrator, you will own data lifecycle performance - from ingestion to analytics delivery - ensuring scalability and resilience
* Lead query performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, and sharding strategies

REQUIREMENTS:
* 5+ years of professional experience with PostgreSQL (including TimescaleDB or other time-series extensions)
* Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and microservice data design
* Expertise with SQL, PL/pgSQL, and data aggregation frameworks
* Familiarity with data modeling for analytics, machine learning pipelines, and metadata management
* Familiarity with Docker & Kubernetes (for dev environments)
* C# for microservices
* Google Cloud (primary), AWS (secondary)
* Managed services, high-velocity tuning
* ETL via microservices
* Strong collaboration and communication skills; Customer-facing experience preferred
* Proven ability to design performant schema structures for large-scale telemetry and event-based systems

Preferred Attributes:
* Experience in IoT, energy management, or sensor data analytics
* Prior experience contributing to data-driven SaaS products
* Working knowledge of Kafka, Redis, or ETL frameworks (Airflow, dbt)
* Curiosity, experimentation, and a drive for clean, efficient data systems

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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