Location: Canberra preferred; Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney or Perth considered (hybrid)

Employment type: Contract

Federal Government | 2 positions | 12-month contract + extensions up to 24 months | Hybrid | NV1

ASJ Tech is recruiting two experienced PostgreSQL DBAs to run and automate enterprise PostgreSQL (EDB) platforms for a large Australian Government setting.

This is a hands-on role for a DBA who automates. You'll look after highly available production databases and deploy them as code with Ansible across RHEL, OpenShift and VMware.

What you'll do

- Configure and manage HADR replication clusters with EDB Failover Manager (EFM).
- Install and administer EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM), including agents, monitoring and alerting.
- Deploy PostgreSQL as code with Ansible CI/CD across RHEL, OpenShift and VMware.
- Run backup and recovery, including PITR and WAL archiving, plus version upgrades and cross-platform migrations.
- Harden PostgreSQL security with LDAP/AD integration, RBAC, TLS and X.509 certificates.
- Configure Argo CD deployments with GitLab,



and automate with Python and shell.

What you'll bring

- 5+ years' PostgreSQL database administration in production.
- Ansible CI/CD deployments of PostgreSQL in RHEL, OpenShift and VMware environments.
- Infrastructure as code experience.
- Strong performance tuning, replication and high-availability troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- PostgreSQL security controls experience.

Highly regarded

- Hands-on EDB EFM and PEM.
- Argo CD with GitLab and GitOps.
- Positions: 2
- Start date: 1 January 2027
- Contract: 12 months, with extensions up to 24 months
- Level: Senior - EL1 equivalent
- Location: Canberra preferred; Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney or Perth considered. Hybrid, with onsite attendance at agency premises.
- Clearance: NV1 held or able to obtain (Australian citizens only)

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📌 Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Canberra)
🏢 Asj Tech
📍 Canberra