PostgreSQL Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by ISR Recruitment Ltd
£525 Per day
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of PostgreSQL Engineer involves supporting a confidential public sector organization on a 6-month contract, focusing on the optimization and continuous improvement of critical PostgreSQL database platforms. The successful candidate will ensure the performance, reliability, scalability, and security of database environments while collaborating with various teams in a secure, mission-critical setting. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to nationally important services within the Government Digital Services project. Remote working is available for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support, administer and optimise PostgreSQL database environments across development, test and production platforms
- Monitor database performance, availability and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Design and implement database maintenance, backup, recovery and high-availability solutions
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, query optimisation and database-related incidents
- Support database security, access controls and compliance requirements
- Work closely with DevOps, infrastructure and application teams to support platform reliability and scalability
- Assist with database migrations, upgrades and environment improvements
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and operational tooling where appropriate
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
- Contribute towards continuous improvement initiatives across database operations and platform engineering
Key Skills:
- Strong commercial experience supporting PostgreSQL database environments
- Proven database administration, optimisation and troubleshooting capability
- Experience with database performance tuning
- Query optimisation
- Backup and recovery strategies
- Replication and high availability
- Good understanding of Linux-based environments
- Experience working with cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments
- Knowledge of database security, monitoring and operational best practices
- Experience supporting highly available enterprise platforms
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments
- Exposure to cloud-native database services and containerised environments
- Experience with automation and Scripting technologies such as Bash, Python, PowerShell
- Familiarity with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Experience supporting large-scale or mission-critical systems
Salary (Rate): £525 per day
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
- PostgreSQL Engineer
- Contract (6-months)
- Remote Working
- Market Rates (c£475 to £525 per day)
The Opportunity:
We are currently supporting a confidential public sector organisation in the search for an experienced PostgreSQL Engineer to join their technology function on an initial 6-month contract basis for a major central government project (Government Digital Services).
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute towards the support, optimisation and continuous improvement of critical database platforms within a highly secure, mission-critical environment supporting nationally important services.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the performance, reliability, scalability and security of PostgreSQL database environments, working closely with infrastructure, development and operational teams across a complex enterprise landscape.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Support, administer and optimise PostgreSQL database environments across development, test and production platforms
- Monitor database performance, availability and capacity, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Design and implement database maintenance, backup, recovery and high-availability solutions
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, query optimisation and database-related incidents
- Support database security, access controls and compliance requirements
- Work closely with DevOps, infrastructure and application teams to support platform reliability and scalability
- Assist with database migrations, upgrades and environment improvements
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and operational tooling where appropriate
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
- Contribute towards continuous improvement initiatives across database operations and platform engineering
Skills and Experience:
- Strong commercial experience supporting PostgreSQL database environments
- Proven database administration, optimisation and troubleshooting capability
Experience with:
- Database performance tuning
- Query optimisation
- Backup and recovery strategies
- Replication and high availability
- Good understanding of Linux-based environments
- Experience working with cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments
- Knowledge of database security, monitoring and operational best practices
- Experience supporting highly available enterprise platforms
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience within government, healthcare or highly regulated environments
- Exposure to cloud-native database services and containerised environments
Experience with automation and Scripting technologies such as:
- Bash
- Python
- PowerShell
- Familiarity with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Experience supporting large-scale or mission-critical systems
NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (around two weeks' lead-time).
Applications:
Please contact Edward Laing here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?