Database Administrator

Role overview

Database operations

• Support Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Db2, and other relational and non-relational platforms.
• Perform maintenance, patching, upgrades, monitoring, lifecycle planning, and capacity management.
• Tune queries, indexes, storage, and configurations; monitor platform health and address risks.
• Manage backup, restore, replication, recovery, and high availability to meet business continuity, disaster recovery, RPO, and RTO needs.
• Support incidents, problems, changes, and releases; collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, cloud, vendor, and project teams.
• Support database implementations, migrations, upgrades, modernization, security, access controls, audits, vulnerability remediation, and compliance.
• Maintain standards, operational procedures, documentation, diagrams, and runbooks; assist with licensing and develop automation scripts.
• Participate in rotational 24x7 on-call support for critical platforms and production incidents.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent education and business experience.
• At least five years in a Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or related technical role.
• Hands-on enterprise database administration experience, including troubleshooting, query analysis, and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of database concepts, architecture, backup and recovery, high availability, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Experience across Linux, UNIX, AIX, and Windows, and with patching, upgrades, monitoring, lifecycle planning, and capacity management.
• Experience with database security, privileged access, encryption, auditing, and compliance.
• Service management skills; ability to maintain procedures, diagrams, support guides, and runbooks.
• Willingness to join a rotational 24x7 on-call schedule, one week per month.

Preferred skills

• NoSQL or in-memory database experience, such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or equivalent, is preferred.
• Cloud database environments and services, including Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, or similar, are preferred.
• Automation or scripting with PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, or Jenkins is preferred.

Pay

• The posting lists pay of $74,671 to $130,424 without stating a pay period.

On-call schedule

• Rotational 24x7 on-call support is required, one week per month.