EDB Postgres Database Administrator

JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)

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EDB Postgres Database Administrator

Hybrid - Radford, VA (Onsite 2 days per week minimum)

Telework 3 days per week

US

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This database administrative position will challenge the candidate to expand his/her skillsets and learn new technologies in a fast-paced and friendly environment. The successful candidate remains up to date on vendor technologies and recommended best practices in a highly available, enterprise environment. The successful candidate for this position will be solid in EDB Postgres and familiar with MySQL and Oracle.

Position typically works 40 hours per week with a blend of onsite and telework. Onsite work is required 2 days a week and telework 3 days a week.

• CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent DoD 8140 foundational)
• EDB Postgres Database certification (for example, EDB Postgres Essentials, EDB Postgres Advanced, EDB Postgres Distributed Essentials)

• Five or more years of experience (including design, installation, configuration, administration, upgrades, tuning, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting) with EDB Postgres in a Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux environment on virtual servers; similar skills desired for MySQL and Oracle
• Experience with EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher
• Experience utilizing DoD and commercial certificates (rather than self-signed certificates) for logins
• Experience with PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager)
• Experience using Ora2pg to migrate Oracle databases to EDB Postgres
• Strong backup and recovery experience using Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager)
• Strong performance tuning experience for both transactional and analytical workloads
• Strong troubleshooting experience utilizing database and operating system capabilities
• Strong shell scripting experience in PL/pgSQL
• Strong bash shell scripting experience in Unix/Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Strong system administration experience
• Strong documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Participation in a 24x7 on-call support rotation

• EDB Postgres Administration 5+ years:
  Design, installation, configuration, upgrades, tuning, backup/recovery, and troubleshooting in enterprise environments
• EDB Postgres 14.19+ & PEM:
  Hands‑on experience with Postgres Enterprise Manager and modern Postgres versions
• Backup, Recovery & Performance Tuning:
  Barman, transactional & analytical workload optimization
• Unix / Oracle Enterprise Linux & Scripting:
  Strong bash scripting and PL/pgSQL; system administration experience
• DoD‑Compliant Secure Environments:
  Secret clearance, CompTIA Security+, certificate‑based authentication (DoD/commercial certs), and participation in 24x7 on‑call

• Databases: EDB Postgres 14.19 or higher, MySQL 8 or higher, Oracle 19c or higher
• EDB Postgres replication experience
• Experience with Kerberos
• Experience with Apache Tomcat
• Shell scripting experience in MySQL, and Oracle PL/SQL
• Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and Security Requirements Guides (SRG)
• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL