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Explorance

Provides people insights and AI recommendations

PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Database AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Professional experience administering PostgreSQL databases in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, administration, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with database performance tuning and query optimization.
  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL backup, recovery, replication, and high-availability concepts.
  • Experience working with Linux environments and Bash or shell scripting.
  • Understanding of database security and access-management best practices.
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with developers and other technical teams.
  • Ability to take ownership of work while contributing to a collaborative team environment.
  • Candidates must reside in Montreal or the surrounding area and be comfortable working from the office five days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain PostgreSQL databases across development, testing, and production environments.
  • Help ensure databases remain highly available, reliable, secure, and performant.
  • Participate in database upgrades, migrations, and infrastructure improvement projects.
  • Contribute to database architecture and design decisions as applications and infrastructure evolve.
  • Monitor database health and identify performance bottlenecks before they become problems.
  • Investigate and optimize queries using PostgreSQL tools such as EXPLAIN and ANALYZE.
  • Improve indexing, schemas, configurations, and deployment scripts to increase performance and reliability.
  • Partner with development teams on database design and query optimization.
  • Support and improve PostgreSQL high-availability environments, including replication and automated failover technologies.
  • Maintain backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes.
  • Regularly validate backups and recovery procedures.
  • Automate repetitive database administration activities using Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools.
  • Improve database monitoring and observability.
  • Support capacity planning and resource utilization analysis.
  • Improve operational processes and technical documentation.
  • Manage database access, permissions, auditing, logging, and other security controls.
  • Help maintain database security and support organizational security standards.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve database-related production issues.
  • Participate in scheduled maintenance and release activities when required.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Patroni, streaming replication, or logical replication.
  • Experience in cloud-hosted database environments.
  • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Experience with Redis or distributed caching technologies.
  • Experience with database monitoring and observability tools.
  • Experience with PL/pgSQL.
  • Experience with ETL and data integration.
  • Experience with PowerShell or other automation technologies.
  • Experience with capacity planning for growing database environments.

About the Company

Explorance

Provides people insights and AI recommendations

Explorance provides People Insight Solutions to help organizations and institutions understand how people experience work and grow in their roles. It connects moments that matter—covering needs, expectations, skills, knowledge, and competency—into a unified view that informs talent decisions. The product relies on measurement expertise and AI-enabled recommendations to move from insight to action, supporting faster, more informed decisions. Unlike general analytics vendors, Explorance focuses on the convergence of people experiences and talent effectiveness, serving 25% of the Fortune 100 and top higher education institutions through a global footprint and trusted culture. The company’s goal is to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle, enabling organizational agility and individual success.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$25M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2003

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