What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Engineer position at CGI?
Position Description
CGI is seeking an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Engineer with deep expertise in Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL internals, high availability design, and AWS cloud native operations. This role supports mission critical systems by ensuring performance, resiliency, automation, and operational excellence across Aurora PostgreSQL environments. The ideal candidate combines strong database engineering skills with modern cloud, automation, and DevOps practices.
***Position is located on-site at SSA HQ in Woodlawn, MD. Candidate is required to work in person 5 days/week***
Your future duties and responsibilities
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.
CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.
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All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.
CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.
CGI is seeking an AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Engineer with deep expertise in Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL internals, high availability design, and AWS cloud native operations. This role supports mission critical systems by ensuring performance, resiliency, automation, and operational excellence across Aurora PostgreSQL environments. The ideal candidate combines strong database engineering skills with modern cloud, automation, and DevOps practices.
***Position is located on-site at SSA HQ in Woodlawn, MD. Candidate is required to work in person 5 days/week***
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Work with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL including architecture, cluster components, failover mechanics, storage layer behavior, and reader/writer topology.
- Configure and manage Aurora Serverless v2, autoscaling, and cost optimization strategies.
- Tune parameter groups, manage cluster endpoints, and leverage Aurora performance features.
- Apply strong SQL fundamentals and advanced PostgreSQL internal knowledge.
- Manage logical and physical replication, version upgrades, and patching activities.
- Utilize PostgreSQL extensions, vacuum operations, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and query tuning methods.
- Work with AWS services such as IAM, VPC/networking, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Secrets Manager.
- Monitor and optimize RDS/Aurora performance using Insights, alarms, event subscriptions, and workload metrics.
- Perform backup/restore operations, manage snapshots, and support point in time recovery processes.
- Integrate database changes in CI/CD pipelines using Liquibase or Flyway.
- Maintain automated DDL/DCL deployment pipelines and use Ansible or similar tooling for configuration automation.
- Engineer and support multi AZ Aurora clusters, read replica topologies, and failover ready architectures.
- Validate and maintain DR runbooks and support 24/7 or mission critical database workloads.
- Implement IAM roles, credential rotation, encryption controls, audit logging, and parameter hardening.
- Work within enterprise governance structures for data access and role management.
- Conduct performance analysis including slow query diagnostics, wait event analysis, and root cause troubleshooting.
- Use Aurora and PostgreSQL logs, metrics, and dashboards for operational insights and tuning.
- Script with Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation, maintenance, or operational tasks.
- Automate Aurora tasks using AWS CLI or APIs.
- Work with AWS CDK or infrastructure as code tooling to deploy and manage Aurora environments.
- Ability to obtain and maintain public trust clearance
- Bachelors 7 years experience
- Hands on experience engineering, operating, and optimizing Aurora PostgreSQL clusters.
- Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL internals, query tuning, indexing, vacuum strategies, and replication.
- Working experience with Aurora failover behaviors, storage mechanics, endpoints, and performance tuning.
- Proficiency using AWS cloud native services for database operations and security.
- Experience with snapshot management, PITR, and high availability database architectures.
- Strong scripting capability in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience integrating databases into CI/CD workflows.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and CDK.
- Ability to troubleshoot performance issues, database errors, and architectural bottlenecks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience supporting mission critical or high availability federal systems.
- Exposure to CloudFormation, Terraform, or broader IaC frameworks.
- Experience creating database standards, guardrails, and governance best practices.
- Familiarity with multi Region architectures and advanced DR strategies.
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, Database Specialty, or DevOps Engineer.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive insurance options
- Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
- Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
- Wellness and Well being programs
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Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics to the extent required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws where we do business.
CGI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job in the U.S., please email the CGI U.S. Employment Compliance mailbox at US_Employment_Compliance@cgi.com. You will need to reference the Position ID of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a Position ID will not be returned.
We make it easy to translate military experience and skills! Click here to be directed to our site that is dedicated to veterans and transitioning service members.
All CGI offers of employment in the U.S. are contingent upon the ability to successfully complete a background investigation. Background investigation components can vary dependent upon specific assignment and/or level of US government security clearance held. Dependent upon role and/or federal government security clearance requirements, and in accordance with applicable laws, some background investigations may include a credit check. CGI will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records in accordance with all local regulations and ordinances.
CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.
Salary : $79,600