Database Administrator PostgreSQL

Project overview

• You administer, expand, and monitor the database environments for production, test, and development
• You implement and maintain reliable backup and restore solutions
• You install and maintain the underlying operating systems and set up new systems or adapt existing ones
• Experience in Linux administration, especially with Red Hat and Ubuntu
• Several years of experience in administering PostgreSQL database clusters, ideally with EDB
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL load balancing and connection pooling, for example with HAProxy and PgBouncer
• Sound knowledge of database backup and recovery
• Experience in database tuning as well as troubleshooting and debugging in an enterprise environment
• German (C-Level)
• Teamwork skills

Requirements

EU citizenship / EU-Citizenship

German (C-Level) / German (C-Level)

We are addressing freelancers and employees. For employees: According to the IT collective agreement, the annual gross salary for this position is at least € 76,216 (ST2 experience level). Depending on professional experience and qualifications, an attractive overpayment is possible

Project details

Vienna

Client: Public sector (with security clearance)

ASAP - long-term

Type: Full-time (38.5 hrs/week)

Hybrid: (approx. 3-4 days / week on-site)

Ideally, you are willing to participate in the on-call service after appropriate training. Proximity to the Vienna workplace is desirable for this.

• Start: 2026-11-01
• Location: Wien, Austria, AT
• Languages: German