Sutherland: Senior DBA - PostgreSQL & AWS RDS - Advanced English — Bogotá, //BOGOTA, Colombia

About Sutherland

Sutherland works in business and digital transformation, combining technology services with business-process expertise. Its employer descriptions identify artificial intelligence, automation, cloud engineering and advanced analytics as areas of activity. The company uses products, platforms and service delivery to improve business operations and customer experiences. Its stated approach brings human expertise together with AI, adapting technology and process changes to the needs of the organisation receiving the service rather than providing only a standalone software product.

The position and its setting

Sutherland lists Senior DBA - PostgreSQL & AWS RDS - Advanced English in Bogotá, //BOGOTA, Colombia, under reference REF47315H. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 10 October 2026
• Brands: Sutherland

Responsibilities and work described

• The Engineer will report to the Manager, Infrastructure Cloud Operations while acting as part of the Database Team managing the databases in AWS Cloud
• AWS console administration
• New deployment tasks for databases & RDS services
• AWS RDS DB health check & availability checks using tools like CloudWatch and performance Insight
• Read & analyse log/error log for Databases
• Alerts configuration, monitoring alerts and fine-tuning thresholds
• Execution: RDS instance actions and comparison with Terraform code
• Export/import (Postgres) or backup/restore (SQL Server) specific data
• Installing/deploying databases, configuring backups, maintenance jobs and other features as needed to support database capacity, performance or product functionality requirements
• Execution: database administration tasks, including at latest versions of databases
• Execution: data restores, patchset / service pack installation and deinstallation, edition upgrade and downgrade, troubleshoot locking, corruption issues as well as suggest and implement solutions with minimal downtime
• Execution: operational duties including database backups, application server health, service recycling
• Identify and resolve operational issues (e.g. batch failures, network issues, client data feed errors)
• Prepare, review, test, and execute T-SQL and PowerShell scripts to perform database administrative tasks as assigned
• Investigate performance issues, provide and implement tuning solutions
• Act as part of a global team, creating and extending existing documentation as well as continuously sharing information and assisting on tasks with other team members

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Experience: Monitor server performance, memory utilization, CPU, file systems, databases, batch jobs, backup and restore concept with best practise
• Experience providing 24x7 support to production Software as a Service infrastructure, including participating in on-call rota and out of hours/weekend support when needed
• 6 to 10 Yrs. of experience as DBA in managing multiple DB engines
• Minimum 6 years relevant experience as DBA
• Hands on experience in multiple versions of Postgres database is mandatory
• Knowledge or experience working in Microsoft SQL, Aurora, MySQL will be an added advantage
• Hands on experience on AWS Cloud, AWS RDS apart from DB technology
• Basic coding skills in Powershell, Python, Terraform
• Understand how automated backups are performed by AWS, know how to check the historical backup timings and how to perform ad-hoc snapshot
• Understanding: ITIL – incidents, service requests, change management
• Willingness to learn about technologies related to database and backup infrastructure, such as storage, backup, operating system and automation tools, cloud solutions or other Databases:
• Effectively establish and maintain cooperative working relationships within a global, diverse, multicultural environment
• Bachelor or Master’s Degree on Computer science or Information technology streams

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Bogotá, //BOGOTA, Colombia

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Sutherland

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Open the official Sutherland posting below and match the title and reference REF47315H.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• SQL
• AWS
• Terraform
• maintenance
• problem resolution