About the role
Fareportal is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator to design, operate, and evolve highly available, scalable PostgreSQL platforms that support Fareportal’s global travel technology ecosystem. This role is critical to ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of mission critical database systems powering Fareportal’s high volume, customer facing applications.
The ideal candidate brings deep PostgreSQL expertise, hands on Patroni experience, and a strong background in production operations and advanced troubleshooting. Experience with MySQL in enterprise environments is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
PostgreSQL Architecture & Design
Design and maintain scalable, fault tolerant PostgreSQL architectures aligned with Fareportal’s business and growth strategy
Define standards for PostgreSQL cluster design, configuration, versioning, and lifecycle management
Architect and operate high availability PostgreSQL environments using Patroni with distributed consensus systems (etcd / Consul)
Lead PostgreSQL upgrades, migrations, and platform modernization initiatives with minimal downtime
Evaluate and implement PostgreSQL extensions, features, and best practices suitable for large scale production workloads
Operations & Production Support (Primary Focus)
Own the day to day operational health of PostgreSQL platforms across production and non production environments
Lead major incident response, including failovers, performance degradation, replication issues, and data consistency problems
Perform deep root cause analysis (RCA) and drive long term corrective and preventive actions
Tune PostgreSQL for performance and stability, including:
Memory and storage optimization
WAL and checkpoint tuning
Autovacuum and bloat management
Query optimization and execution plan analysis
Manage and validate backup, restore, and point in time recovery strategies (pgBackRest, Barman, or equivalent)
Act as a senior escalation point during on call rotations and high severity production events
Patroni & High Availability
Design, configure, and operate Patroni based PostgreSQL clusters in production
Troubleshoot and resolve complex HA scenarios such as:
Leader election failures
Split brain conditions
Network partitions and fencing issues
Define and tune HA behavior (failover, switchover, synchronous replication settings)
Establish safe maintenance, patching, and upgrade procedures for HA environments