Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator

  • Allstate
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 11/03/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Join Allstate's Database Engineering team to build, operate, and modernize enterprise PostgreSQL platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design and support database infrastructure, high availability, disaster recovery, security, performance, automation, and production operations while partnering with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, administer, and support PostgreSQL environments across production and non-production systems.
  • Lead PostgreSQL installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
  • Design and test high-availability, disaster-recovery, backup, and recovery solutions.
  • Monitor database health, capacity, and performance; optimize SQL, indexes, execution plans, and configurations.
  • Implement database security controls, access management, encryption, auditing, and compliance support.
  • Develop operational automation and documentation, respond to incidents, and mentor engineers.

Required Skills

  • PostgreSQL administration
  • Linux administration
  • Postgre
  • SQL installation and configuration
  • Database upgrades and migrations
  • Patronietcd
  • HAProxy
  • Keepalived
  • Streaming replicationpg
  • Back
  • Rest and WAL archiving