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 Youll Do :

- Design, deploy, and operate PostgreSQL platforms optimized for microservices running on Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, isolation, and resilience

- Architect and manage Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Hyperscale (Citus) for high availability, disaster recovery, and global scale

- Define database design patterns for microservices, including database-per-service, shared services, read replicas, and event-driven data flows

- Partner with engineering teams to ensure PostgreSQL supports CI/CD pipelines, rolling deployments, and zero-downtime releases

- Lead performance tuning and capacity planning across compute, storage, IOPS, memory, and network layers

- Troubleshoot advanced PostgreSQL internals including autovacuum, WAL, MVCC, locking, query planner behavior, and background processes

- Design distributed data architectures using replication, logical decoding, sharding, and multi-region topologies

- Support PostgreSQL connectivity patterns for Kubernetes workloads such as connection pooling, PgBouncer, sidecars, and service mesh integrations

- Lead and execute cloud migrations and modernization initiatives from on-prem or legacy platforms to cloud-native PostgreSQL

- Implement enterprise-grade security and compliance controls including Azure AD integration, encryption at rest and in transit, Private Link, and customer-managed keys

- Build and maintain automation and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and scripting with Python, Bash, or PowerShell

- Establish observability and monitoring using

- Define PostgreSQL standards and best practices, mentor engineers, and act as a senior escalation point for mission-critical systems

- Core Skills for a PostgreSQL Admin Supporting Microservices

- Designing PostgreSQL for stateless application tiers and horizontally scaled services

- Managing connection pooling and concurrency at scale using PgBouncer or similar tools

- Supporting high-transaction, bursty workloads typical of microservices architectures

- Implementing schema evolution strategies compatible with continuous delivery

- Understanding data ownership, consistency models, and service boundaries in distributed systems

- Supporting event-driven architectures and change data capture patterns.

Required Technical Qualifications :

- 8+ years in software architecture, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.

- Strong expertise in :

1. Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, ingress/egress patterns

2. Microservices and distributed systems

3. Domain-driven design (DDD) and domain decomposition

4. Cloud-native design principles and modernization strategies

- Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages with the ability to assess current application structures and determine appropriate modernization approaches.

- Authentication & identity (Auth0, OIDC, OAuth2, SSO)

- API architecture (REST, GraphQL, gateways)

- Event-driven design, messaging platforms (Kafka, Azure Service Bus)

- Cloud-native patterns such as CQRS, Saga, Event Sourcing, Circuit Breakers

- CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, GitOps, and modern DevOps tooling

- Experience using AI-powered tooling to support PostgreSQL administration, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.

What We Offer :

- Competitive compensation

- Employee medical coverage

- Central office location

- Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions

- Casual work environment