Project Role Description : Act as software detectives, provide a dynamic service identifying and solving issues within multiple components of critical business systems.
Must have skills : PostgreSQL Administration
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 2 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
We are looking for an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator/Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in PostgreSQL database administration, performance tuning, cloud deployments, backup & recovery, and high availability solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and experience managing production-grade PostgreSQL environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL databases in production and non-production environments.
- Manage PostgreSQL databases on cloud platforms like AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, or Google Cloud SQL.
- Monitor database health, performance, availability, and security.
- Perform query optimization, indexing, vacuum tuning, and performance troubleshooting.
- Implement backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Configure and manage High Availability (HA) and failover solutions.
- Handle database migrations from on-premise to cloud environments.
- Automate database administration tasks using shell scripting, Python, or Ansible/Terraform.
- Work closely with DevOps, application, and infrastructure teams.
- Ensure database security, access control, and compliance standards.
- Troubleshoot production incidents and provide root cause analysis.
Professional/ technical Skills:
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL administration (4+ years).
- Expertise in PostgreSQL architecture, replication, partitioning, and performance tuning.
- Experience with cloud database services such as:
- Amazon Web Services RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL
- Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud Platform Cloud SQL
- Knowledge of HA technologies like Patroni, PgBouncer, Pgpool-II, or streaming replication.
- Experience with backup/recovery tools such as pgBackRest, Barman, or WAL-G.
- Strong SQL and PL/pgSQL skills.
- Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or Shell scripting
Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 3-6 years of experience in PostgreSQL Administration.
- This position is based at our Hyderabad office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.15 years full time education
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Skills Required
- PostgreSQL administration experience (production)
- 4+ years PostgreSQL administration experience (listed as required in technical skills)
- Experience managing cloud DB services: AWS RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Google Cloud SQL
- Experience with HA technologies: Patroni, PgBouncer, Pgpool-II, streaming replication
- Experience with backup/recovery tools: pgBackRest, Barman, WAL-G
- Strong SQL and PL/pgSQL skills
- Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or Shell scripting
- Automation experience using Ansible or Terraform
- Experience performing query optimization, vacuum tuning, performance troubleshooting
- Experience with database migrations from on-premise to cloud
- Minimum 15 years full-time education
- Based at Hyderabad office (on-site requirement)
Accenture Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Accenture and has not been reviewed or approved by Accenture.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is considered competitive when paired with robust insurance options and other perks that compare well with large consulting and IT services peers. Multiple national medical plan options plus dental and vision are positioned as a core strength of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout feature through a 401(k) dollar-for-dollar match up to a set percentage after eligibility. The package is reinforced by additional financial programs such as savings tools and related resources.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiving supports are presented as a meaningful benefit differentiator through substantial paid parental leave and multiple caregiver-oriented programs. Backup care and fertility/adoption/surrogacy navigation and reimbursements add breadth to family support beyond leave alone.
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What We Do
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