DBA PostgreSQL – Operations

Ref 2583702 | Date: 7 Oct 2026

CAISSE DES MEDECINS

A cooperative active for more than 60 years in the field of billing and medical practice management, we have about ten agencies and employ more than 350 collaborators nationwide. Our services support thousands of healthcare professionals daily: their availability is critical.

PostgreSQL is our target data platform and its scope expands with each migration wave. To ensure its daily operation, we are looking for a:

DBA PostgreSQL – Operations (M/F)

This position covers both the daily operation of our PostgreSQL databases — availability, reliability and performance in production — and the contribution to the design and industrialization of our data platform, in close collaboration with the Platform Management teams.

Your mission

Operations and availability

• Ensure the administration and proper functioning of production PostgreSQL databases
• Guarantee the availability, reliability and performance of data services
• Manage backups, restorations, replication, high availability and disaster recovery, and regularly test their proper functioning
• Plan and execute updates, patches and changes in production
• Monitor databases, analyze metrics and anticipate capacity and performance issues
• Perform tuning and optimization of queries and instances

Design and industrialization

• Contribute to the design of database architectures and their deployment on our platform
• Participate in the automation of provisioning, backups, updates and failovers
• Work with the Platform Management teams on the evolution of the data platform
• Define and maintain the operating standards for databases deployed on the platform

Incident and problem management

• Handle level 2/3 incidents within the database scope
• Analyze root causes and drive sustainable corrective actions
• Participate in an on-call rotation outside of working hours
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of operating procedures

Migration and support

• Participate in the implementation of the migration of legacy databases to PostgreSQL
• Validate the performance and compliance of migrated databases
• Provide support to development teams and business teams
• Document procedures, runbooks and best practices, and automate recurring tasks

Your profile

Education: Bachelor or Master in computer science, databases or training deemed equivalent

Experience: minimum 4 years in administration and operation of PostgreSQL databases in a production environment

Technical skills

• Solid experience in PostgreSQL administration: replication, backup and restoration, HA/DR
• Experience in tuning and performance optimization
• Mastery of SQL and PL/pgSQL
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
• Scripting (Shell, Python) for the automation of operating tasks
• Good knowledge of database security
• Knowledge of ITIL processes (incident, problem, change): an advantage
• Experience with databases deployed on Kubernetes is an asset
• Experience with other engines (SAP ASE, MS SQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis) is appreciated

Languages

• Fluent French or German
• English minimum B1/B2 level required
• The second national language is a real asset

Soft skills

• Sense of service and operational responsibility
• Autonomy, rigor and spirit of initiative
• Ability to work in a team and share knowledge
• Good communication to collaborate with different stakeholders

We offer

• A rapidly growing platform and a central role in its reliability
• Training in the field of medical billing as well as on our business software
• Great autonomy in work
• A large company ... of human size (approx. 350 employees)
• The culture of using "tu" across hierarchies
• Flexible hours and the possibility of teleworking
• A stable and solid pension fund

Additional information

• Start date: to be agreed
• Place of work: Thônex (GE)

Do you recognize yourself in this description? Then we look forward to receiving your application. Please address your complete file (CV, cover letter, certificates...) to Véronique Yvrait, ONLY via the jobup site. Thank you

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