Cloud Database Architect – PostgreSQL, Cloud Database Specialist

🔥 14 hours ago

🌐 Egypt, Argentina, +3 more countries – Remote

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💵 $3.3k - $3.7k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📀 Database Administrator

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Scale Army Careers

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Scale Army Careers is a remote-first recruiting and talent placement service that matches experienced marketing, sales, and technical professionals outside the U. S. (primarily Latin America and Africa) with high-growth U. S. companies. They handle candidate screening (including application forms, video interviews, take-home assignments), contract and payment administration, and provide ongoing support and onboarding guidance while placements work directly with client companies. Roles are typically full-time remote positions paid in USD through payroll platforms like Deel.

📋 Description

• Administer and maintain PostgreSQL environments in the cloud • Manage database configuration, parameter tuning, storage, patching, and version upgrades • Manage, scale, and deploy relational databases in cloud environments such as AWS RDS • Design and maintain database access layers, roles, privileges, connection pooling, authentication, and least-privilege access models • Lead database and cloud migration projects from planning through cutover and post-migration optimization • Scale distributed PostgreSQL environments and maintain replication, clustering, and multi-node setups • Optimize query efficiency, resource utilization, storage, and database-related costs • Implement backup strategies, snapshots, point-in-time recovery, and recovery procedures • Monitor database health, performance, and capacity; respond to incidents and conduct root-cause analysis • Participate in on-call support • Enforce database security, encryption, network isolation, and access controls • Create technical runbooks, document governance policies, and maintain change-management processes • Partner with engineering on capacity planning and platform stability • Use AI tools within approved governance requirements and ensure database access flows through approved API endpoints and MCPs

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience • Deep, specialized PostgreSQL expertise • Strong experience managing, scaling, and deploying relational databases in cloud environments such as AWS RDS • Demonstrated experience leading and successfully delivering database and cloud migration projects • Proven experience scaling production database environments • Experience with multi-node database setups, including replication, clustering, and high availability • Experience designing database access layers and governance frameworks • Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, configuration, performance, and production operations • Strong understanding of database system theory and computer science fundamentals • Strong cloud database management and deployment capabilities • Experience with database performance optimization, including indexing, vacuuming, query efficiency, resource utilization, storage, and parameter tuning • Experience implementing database backup, snapshot, point-in-time, and recovery strategies • Experience with database security, encryption, network isolation, and access controls • Scripting experience using Bash, Python, or similar technologies for administrative automation • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or similar • Ability to use AI as part of daily engineering workflows while reviewing outputs critically and following defined governance requirements • Availability to work 9:00 AM–5:00 PM EST • English resume required