Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator – full-time

We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator to lead the design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of our data platforms. You will partner with engineering, analytics, and security teams to ensure high availability, performance, and data integrity across complex environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and manage highly available database systems across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Lead database provisioning, patching, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery planning with a focus on RPO/RTO objectives.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and capacity planning to support growing workloads.
• Monitor, diagnose, and resolve database issues; implement proactive health checks and automation.
• Design and enforce data governance, security controls, and compliance requirements for sensitive data.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize data models, ETL/ELT processes, and data pipelines.
• Mentor junior DBAs, establish standards, runbooks, and best practices for database operations.
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQL databases.
• Strong expertise in backup/restore strategies, replication, high availability, and clustering techniques.
• Proficiency with SQL tuning, execution plans, indexing, and query performance optimization.
• Experience in cloud-based database services (e.g., AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL) and on-premises DB environments.
• Solid understanding of data security, auditing, encryption, and compliance standards.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills; ability to work across multiple teams and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with database automation, Infrastructure as Code, and monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Certifications such as Oracle DBA, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or cloud database certifications.
• Exposure to data warehouse architectures and large-scale analytics environments.