**Description** **You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.** With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally. At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong. Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together. As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex. We are looking for highly skilled and self motivated Postgres DBA who has good experience on DBA tasks and automation of DBA tasks. The focus will be on both on-premises and public clouds AWS (Aurora) and GCP (Cloud SQL & Spanner) **Responsibilities** : Automation of regular DBA tasks like monitoring, backup, recovery, db changes, query automation, rebuild of replicas etc Identify automation opportunities, resource saves and process improvement avenues Well versed with automation and db monitoring tools like ansible, Python, Github, shell scripting, Grafana dashboards, Terraform Postgres monitor tools integration with Servicenow, slack and other ticket or alert generation tools DBA tasks such as First line support of PostgresSQL databases and tickets Backup and recovery of Postgres DB Monitoring and handle alerts Replication build, monitor and troubleshoot Performance monitoring and tuning Working knowledge of native Replication in PostgreSQL Database extension like SQL advisor, PG stats Actively participate & drive major incident management troubleshooting calls Manage and monitor DBs using PgAdmin, Patroni & Pgbackrest tools Performing maintenance activities like vacuum, vacuum full and analyze Day to day Change, Incident Management, problem management and explore options for optimization/HA/process improvements. Enhance observability dashboards & improve alerting Flexible in working on weekend on rotation basis **How will you make an impact in this role?** We are looking for highly skilled and self motivated Postgres DBA who has good experience on DBA tasks and automation of DBA tasks. The focus will be on both on-premises and public clouds AWS (Aurora) and GCP (Cloud SQL & Spanner). You will be joining our global technology’s Database Operations team in American Express as Postgres DBA **Minimum Qualifications** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Science Engineering, or related field 4 years Database Administrator experience on Postgres DBA Experience in one of the public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and/or Azure Linux experience as it pertains to database and OS performance monitoring, log monitoring and upgrades Quick learning and adoption ability Preferred Qualifications Experience on OEM for Postgres monitor is plus Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with team members **Qualifications** Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $140,000.00 annually bonus benefits The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors. We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include: + Competitive base salaries + Bonus incentives + 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan + Free financial coaching and financial well-being support + Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits + Flexible working model with hybrid arrangements depending on role and business need + 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy + Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) + Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program + Career development and training opportunities For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site . 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If the links do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters to access the three posters. **Job:** Technologies **Primary Location:** US-Arizona-Phoenix **Schedule** Full-time **Req ID:** 24018442