Overview:
Guidepoint is an enterprise software organization embarking on a modernization strategy from a legacy monolith to a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based environment. With multiple product and platform teams delivering reusable services across the enterprise, We are seeking a highly experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator and Architect to design, operate, and evolve PostgreSQL platforms that support cloud-native, microservices-based applications. This role is critical to ensuring our data layer is scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with Kubernetes-driven architectures.
You will work closely with platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and application teams to design PostgreSQL architectures that seamlessly support containerized workloads, distributed systems, and high-throughput microservices. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep PostgreSQL expertise combined with modern cloud and Kubernetes experience. This role is essential for driving modernization, reducing duplication, accelerating delivery, and building a cohesive, future-ready enterprise architecture.
This position is a hybrid position out of our Pune office.
What You'll Do:
- Design, deploy, and operate PostgreSQL on Kubernetes for microservices, ensuring scalability, isolation, resilience, and support for stateless, horizontally scaled workloads.
- Architect and manage Azure PostgreSQL (Flexible Server, Hyperscale/Citus) with HA/DR, global scale, and lead cloud migrations/modernization from legacy platforms.
- Define and implement database design patterns (database-per-service, shared services, read replicas) and distributed architectures (replication, logical decoding, sharding, multi-region, event-driven/CDC flows).
- Enable application integration via CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, schema evolution, and Kubernetes connectivity patterns (PgBouncer, pooling, sidecars, service mesh).
- Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshoot deep PostgreSQL internals (autovacuum, WAL, MVCC, locking, query planner, background processes) for high-throughput, bursty workloads.
- Implement security and compliance (Azure AD, encryption in transit/at rest, Private Link, CMK) and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
- Build and maintain automation and IaC (Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, Python, Bash, PowerShell) and establish observability and monitoring.
- Define best practices, data ownership models, and consistency boundaries (DDD), mentor engineers, and act as an escalation point for mission-critical systems.
Required Technical Qualifications:
- 8+ years in database administration, software architecture, cloud, or platform engineering.
- Expertise in PostgreSQL (performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability) in Kubernetes/containerized environments.
- Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, DDD, and domain decomposition.
- Experience with cloud-native design, modernization strategies, and patterns (CQRS, Saga, Event Sourcing, Circuit Breakers).
- Proficiency in programming/scripting for application assessment and modernization.
- Experience with authentication & identity (Auth0, OIDC, OAuth2, SSO).
- Knowledge of API architecture (REST, GraphQL, gateways), service mesh, and ingress/egress patterns.
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging (Kafka, Azure Service Bus).
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Helm, GitOps, and DevOps tooling.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered tools for PostgreSQL administration and operations.
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation
- Employee medical coverage
- Central office location
- Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
- Casual work environment
About Guidepoint:
Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.
Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint's 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.
At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute toan equitableand welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
