Postgres Database Administrator

About the Role

This role sits within IT Services as part of the AI & Automation (AAA) Programme, which is embedding AI and automation into how Queen Mary University of London operates. The AAA team delivers a portfolio of projects covering user-facing AI agents, integrations across university systems and new microservices that automate and improve day-to-day university processes.

About You 

The Postgres Database Administrator designs, builds and operates the PostgreSQL databases that AAA services rely on. The postholder works alongside backend developers and platform engineers to make the databases reliable, performant and secure, and partners with the Technical Business Analyst and source-system owners on schema, migration and integration design. 

This is a hands-on Postgres database administration role. The emphasis is on strong PostgreSQL fundamentals across performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and security, applied to production databases running on Kubernetes via CloudNativePG. CloudNativePG experience specifically is welcome but not the primary bar; strong general Postgres experience and a readiness to operate it on Kubernetes are. 

The postholder will hold a Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience.

About the Department

The postholder will join a small, high-impact engineering team within IT Services, working alongside backend developers, platform engineers and the Technical Business Analyst on a growing portfolio of AAA services. The postholder will partner with engineering throughout the lifecycle of each service, from database design and schema evolution through to in-life operations and incident response. The role reports to the Programme Director for AI Automation, Apps and Strategy. 

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Closing Date: 05/10/2026, 23:55 

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