Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator
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Job overview
The Senior PostgreSQL Database Administrator builds, tests, and maintains complex databases. The role handles database security, protection, validation, loading, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, backup, and recovery. It also supports development efforts requiring database access, generates usage reports for growth planning, and interfaces with development team members about application requirements and database programming best practices.
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Full job description
Build, test and maintain complex databases.Database security, protection and data validation.Monitor database loading and performance, and troubleshoot issues.Database backup, validation and recovery.Assist development efforts requiring database access.Generate database usage reports for growth planning.Interface with development team members regarding application requirements and database programming best practices.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 720 open Database Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$94–160K/yr23 salary ranges
- US median$50–60/hr36 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Database Administrator jobs in Texas and 720 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- CGS Federal5 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)4 open
- ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company2 open
- Experience
- Database Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (582 postings).
- Education
- 288 of the 720 open Database Administrator jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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