Senior Database Administrator – PostgreSQL & ClickHouse

Senior Database Administrator – PostgreSQL & ClickHouse

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you’ll do:

We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator with 5–8 years of expertise in managing, optimizing, and securing enterprise database environments, with a strong focus on PostgreSQL and ClickHouse. The ideal candidate will have deep technical knowledge of database architecture, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability, along with experience supporting analytical workloads and mission-critical systems. This role involves both proactive database optimization and reactive troubleshooting to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities

Database Administration

• Install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL and ClickHouse database servers across development, staging, and production environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, and resource usage, applying proactive tuning measures.
• Manage schemas, indexes, roles, and permissions for optimized performance and security.

Performance Optimization

• Analyze and tune queries, indexing strategies, and database configurations for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
• Optimize ClickHouse for analytical and OLAP workloads, ensuring fast query responses on large datasets.

Backup, Recovery & High Availability

• Implement backup strategies and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL and ClickHouse.
• Configure and manage high availability setups (replication, clustering, or failover solutions).

Security & Compliance

• Apply database security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and audit logging.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations.

Troubleshooting & Incident Response

• Investigate and resolve database-related incidents, performance issues, and failures.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex database problems.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Work with application, analytics, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless integration and performance.
• Document database configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

What you need to bring:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in database administration with strong PostgreSQL and ClickHouse expertise.

Technical Skills

• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture, configuration, replication, and tuning.
• Experience with ClickHouse configuration and optimization for large-scale analytics.
• Strong SQL and query optimization capabilities.
• Familiarity with backup/recovery tools such as pgBackRest, Barman, and ClickHouse utilities.
• Proficiency in Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Exposure to cloud-hosted database services like AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure Database, or GCP.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability.
• Clear communication and effective cross-team collaboration.

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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