PostgreSQL Database Developer

About the role

PostgreSQL Database Developer

Employment Type: Full Time, Experienced level

Department: Information Technology

CGS is seeking a PostgreSQL Database Developer to join our team supporting a rapidly growing Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform focused on providing data solutions that empower our federal customers. You will support a migration from the current Oracle database to a Postgres database and manage the database environments proactively. As we continue our growth, you will play a key role in ensuring scalability of our data systems.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

- Drive efforts to migrate from the current Oracle database to the new Microsoft Azure Postgres database

- Create and maintain technical documentation, using defined technical documentation templates, as well as gain an in-depth knowledge of the business data to propose and implement effective solutions

- Collaborate with internal and external parties to transform high-level technical objectives into comprehensive technical requirements

- Ensure the availability and performance of the databases that support our systems, ensuring that they have sufficient resources allocated to support high resilience and speed.

- Perform and assist developers in performance tuning

- Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime and improve maintenance of the databases to include rollouts, patching, and upgrades

- Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates, as well as gaining an in-depth knowledge of the business data to propose and implement effective solutions

- Work within a structured and Agile development approach

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree

- Must be US Citizenship

- 7 years of experience with administrating PostgreSQL Databases in Linux environments

- Experience with setting up, monitoring, and maintaining PostgreSQL instances

- Experience with implementing and maintaining PostgreSQL backup and disaster recovery processes

- Experience migrating Oracle schema, packages, views, triggers to Postgres using Ora2Pg tool

Ideally, you will also have:

- Experience implementing and maintaining data warehouses

- Experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL

- Experience with Oracle databases