Lead PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Basic Information

Country:

United States

State:

NA

Date Published:

06-May-2025

Job ID:

44675

Travel:

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Additional Locations:

Detroit - Michigan, Houston - Texas, San Francisco - California, New York - New York, Washington - DC This role can be based remotely in United States  Looking for more details about our benefits? You can also learn all about them by clicking HERE

Description and Requirements

CareerArc Code

CA-JR #LI-JR1 Remote: #LI-Remote

"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life!" 

We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud!  

We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation!  The DSOM product line includes BMC’s industry-leading Digital Services and Operation Management products. We have many interesting SaaS products, in the fields of: Predictive IT service management, Automatic discovery of inventories, intelligent operations management, and more! We continuously grow by adding and implementing the most cutting-edge technologies and investing in Innovation! Our team is a global and versatile group of professionals, and we LOVE to hear our employees’ innovative ideas. So, if Innovation is close to your heart – this is the place for you!

In this role, you will combine Infrastructure and Applicative DBA tasks (50%-50%) and work within an awesome R&D team. You will be the Tech Lead of the team, responsible for mentoring, onboarding, providing technical advice, researching new technologies and handling more complex tasks. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence on technical decision making and lead DB related projects. You will use relational DBs such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and collaborate with various internal interfaces as well as B2B enterprise customers. 

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success: 

• You will be responsible for implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of system health for high-concurrency PostgreSQL database systems ensuring the availability and consistent performance, supporting product development teams.
• Build high-scale data pipelines and data infrastructure for migrating SQLServer and Oracle DB to PostgreSQL on AWS RDB.
• Resolve database performance and scalability issues and implement Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Design and implement scalable database schemas and configurations, File system layout, Physical partitioning, Sharding and Replication, incremental backups, Restores, and recovery models.
• Implement High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (D