Database Administrator - Postgres, Azure

Overview:

Guidepoint is an enterprise software organization embarking on a modernization strategy from a legacy monolith to a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment. With multiple product and platform teams delivering reusable services across the enterprise, We are seeking a highly experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator and Architect to design, operate, and evolve PostgreSQL platforms that support cloud-native, microservices-based applications. This role is critical to ensuring our data layer is scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with Kubernetes-driven architectures.

You will work closely with platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and application teams to design PostgreSQL architectures that seamlessly support containerized workloads, distributed systems, and high-throughput microservices. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep PostgreSQL expertise combined with modern cloud and Kubernetes experience. This role is essential for driving modernization, reducing duplication, accelerating delivery, and building a cohesive, future-ready enterprise architecture.

This position is a hybrid position out of our Pune office.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, deploy, and operate PostgreSQL platforms optimized for microservices running on Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, isolation, and resilience
• Architect and manage Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Hyperscale (Citus) for high availability, disaster recovery, and global scale
• Define database design patterns for microservices, including database-per-service, shared services, read replicas, and event-driven data flows
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure PostgreSQL supports CI/CD pipelines, rolling deployments, and zero-downtime releases
• Lead performance tuning and capacity planning across compute, storage, IOPS, memory, and network layers
• Troubleshoot advanced PostgreSQL internals including autovacuum, WAL, MVCC, locking, query planner behavior, and background processes
• Design distributed data architectures using replication, logical decoding, sharding, and multi-region topologies
• Lead and execute cloud migrations and modernization initiatives from on-prem or legacy platforms to cloud-native PostgreSQL
• Implement enterprise-grade security and compliance controls including Azure AD integration, encryption at rest and in transit, Private Link, and customer-managed keys
• Build and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Establish observability and monitoring using
• Define PostgreSQL standards and best practices, mentor engineers, and act as a senior escalation point for mission-critical systems
• Core Skills for a PostgreSQL Admin Supporting Microservices
• Designing PostgreSQL for stateless application tiers and horizontally scaled services
• Support PostgreSQL connectivity patterns for Kubernetes workloads such as connection pooling, PgBouncer, sidecars, and service mesh integrations
• Managing connection pooling and concurrency at scale using PgBouncer or similar tools

• Supporting high-transaction, bursty workloads typical of microservices architectures
• Implementing schema evolution strategies compatible with continuous delivery
• Understanding data ownership, consistency models, and service boundaries in distributed systems
• Supporting event-driven architectures and change data capture patterns. 

Required Technical Qualifications:

• 8+ years in software architecture, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
• Strong expertise in: 
• Domain-driven design (DDD) and domain decomposition
• Cloud-native design principles and modernization strategies
• Event-driven design, messaging platforms (Kafka, Azure Service Bus)
• Cloud-native patterns such as CQRS, Saga, Event Sourcing, Circuit Breakers
• Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages with the ability to assess current application structures and determine appropriate modernization approaches.
• Experience with authentication and identity, including Auth0, OIDC, OAuth2, and SSO.
• Experience in API architecture, including REST, GraphQL, and gatew