About the role

Open to candidates across ACT, NSW, VIC, QLD, SA and WA. A major federal government agency needs a senior PostgreSQL specialist to own the build, automation and operation of its enterprise PostgreSQL estate on EDB Postgres. You will design and run high availability, backup and disaster recovery, and migrations, and you will deliver PostgreSQL as code through Ansible, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines across RHEL, OpenShift and VMware.

This is hands-on database platform engineering, not application development or data engineering.

Key responsibilities

- Configuring and managing HADR replication clusters using EDB Failover Manager (EFM)
- Installing, configuring and administering EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM): agent deployment, database registration, performance monitoring and alerting
- Designing, deploying and maintaining PostgreSQL through Ansible CI/CD pipelines across RHEL, OpenShift and VMware
- Developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code for PostgreSQL deployments
- Configuring Argo CD deployments integrated with GitLab
- Backup and disaster recovery: automated backup orchestration, point-in-time recovery (PITR), WAL archiving and replication-based recovery
- Planning and executing migrations and version upgrades: logical and physical replication, WAL shipping, backup and restore, cloning and server-level migration
- Securing PostgreSQL with LDAP/Active Directory authentication, role-based access control (RBAC), TLS encryption, X.509 certificates and hardening to enterprise standards
- Database software installs, upgrades and currency
- Documentation, team capability uplift and knowledge transfer

About you

- At least five years of hands-on PostgreSQL database administration in production environments
- Proven experience deploying and maintaining PostgreSQL with Ansible CI/CD pipelines on RHEL, OpenShift and VMware




- Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code
- Solid PostgreSQL performance tuning and integration optimisation
- Experience implementing PostgreSQL security controls (LDAP/AD, RBAC, TLS, X.509, privileged access)
- Strong Python and Shell scripting for automation, monitoring and troubleshooting
- Able to work independently under general direction, with occasional out-of-hours work for scheduled changes or incidents
- Australian citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 (Negative Vetting Level 1) clearance

Nice to have

- Five or more years with RHEL on OpenShift and VMware
- Three or more years of infrastructure-as-code
- Two or more years of PostgreSQL deployments through Ansible CI/CD pipelines
- EDB Postgres, EFM and PEM experience in an enterprise or government environment
- GitOps experience with Argo CD and GitLab

Security clearance You must have NV1 (Negative Vetting Level 1) clearance. If you already hold a clearance, please tell us the level and whether it is active.

Role details

- 12-month initial contract with extension options
- Starting January 2027
- Canberra preferred; Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth considered
- Hybrid. Working from home is considered, provided you live within reasonable travel of the office for onsite attendance when needed
- Competitive hourly rate

When you apply, we will require

- Confirmation of Australian citizenship, and any current clearance (level and whether it is active)
- Your years of hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience, and the EDB, Ansible, OpenShift and Argo CD tooling you have used
- Which city you would work from
- Your hourly rate, excluding GST
- Your earliest start date

About us ContractRoll Pty Ltd is a Canberra-based boutique labour hire firm, trading since 2019. We have placed multiple talented contractors in large federal government departments and private agencies.

📌 Senior PostgreSQL DBA (Canberra)
🏢 ContractRoll
📍 Canberra