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Introduction

Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, infusing innovation into enterprise systems. You will access latest education (online courses, class trainings, and other professional learning platforms), tools and technologies, in order to boost your career within the world’s technology leader company.

You will have the opportunity to access technical and leadership certification programs, clear career paths that enhance your growth mindset and guarantee your professional achievements

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for motivated and tech-passionate people to:

 

  • Administer and optimize PostgreSQL environments with a focus on replication, backup/restore, and high availability (HA)

  • Perform in-depth performance tuning, including indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and query optimization

  • Define and implement secure database configurations including roles, privileges, encryption, and auditing

  • Design and execute migration strategies from SQL Server to PostgreSQL

  • Collaborate closely with business and technical teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable database solutions

  • Continuously analyze and improve database performance, reliability, and maintainability

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

- Proven experience in designing and implementing complex solutions based on PostgreSQL, including advanced configuration for replication, backup/restore, and high availability (HA)

- Solid experience supporting technical teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to PostgreSQL environments, ensuring ongoing maintenance and performance optimization

- Strong understanding of relational database concepts, SQL standards, and implications of architectural decisions in PostgreSQL

- Advanced SQL programming skills with hands-on experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and execution plan analysis in PostgreSQL

- Experience with database migration projects, particularly transitioning from SQL Server to PostgreSQL

- Familiarity with PostgreSQL security best practices, including user role management, privilege control, data encryption, and auditing

- Availability to travel is an additional mandatory prerequisite

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Agile mindset: ability to process changes of priorities and requests, ownership, critical thinking

- Experience with AWS cloud and integration platforms (Airflow, Step Functions)

One of the following:

- Experience with Data Governance tools

- Experience with a business intelligence tool (e.g. Power BI, SAP BI, Oracle OBIEE, SAS Visual Analytics/ Viya)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.