Senior 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 remote, with a base in Pune. 

What You’ll Do:

• Design, deploy, and operate PostgreSQL platforms for microservices in Kubernetes environments, ensuring scalability and resilience
• Architect and manage Azure PostgreSQL (Flexible Server & Hyperscale/Citus) for high availability, disaster recovery, and global scale
• Lead performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning across database and infrastructure layers
• Drive cloud migration and modernization from legacy/on-prem systems to cloud-native PostgreSQL
• Partner with engineering teams to enable CI/CD, automation, and zero-downtime deployments
• Implement security, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
• Define database design patterns for microservices, including distributed and event-driven architectures
• Build automation using IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep) and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Establish monitoring/observability, define best practices, and mentor teams as a senior technical leader

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 gateways, is required.
• Experience using AI-powered tooling to support PostgreSQL administration, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.

Desired Technical Qualifications:

• Kubernetes, Containers, service mesh, ingress/egress patterns  
• Microservices and distributed systems 
• Ci/CD pipelines, Helm charts, GitOps and modern DevOps tooling

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.

Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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