IT Database Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Administer, monitor, and manage Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL environments hosted across multi-cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

• Ensure the availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and data integrity of databases across development, testing, and production environments.

• Execute database installations, configurations, upgrades, patching, migrations, and manage version lifecycles.

• Oversee backup, restoration, disaster recovery, replication, high availability, and business continuity processes.

• Administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, users, roles, and permissions.

• Implement role-based access control, network policies, authentication standards, and adhere to security best practices.

• Facilitate data ingestion, transformation, sharing, and integration processes.

• Monitor performance, optimize workloads and resource utilization, and support cost governance initiatives.

• Tune SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, warehouses, and database configurations.

• Automate recurring administrative tasks and continuously enhance operational processes.

• Provide support for access reviews, security audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and evidence collection.

• Maintain database standards, architectural documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and disaster recovery protocols.

• Engage in change management, release management, and incident management processes.

• Support cloud database services and associated infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and AWS.

• Collaborate with data engineering teams on Databricks connectivity, platform dependencies, and operational support.

• Assist with integrations among databases, applications, ETL/ELT solutions, cloud services, and analytics platforms.

• Ensure alignment of database services with enterprise architecture, security, reliability, and cost-management standards.

• Provide Level 2 and Level 3 database support and troubleshoot complex incidents.

• Participate in on-call support and critical incident response as necessary.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, cloud, and data engineering teams across various regions.

• Communicate risks, root causes, remediation plans, and service improvements to both technical and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on database administration experience within enterprise environments.

• Proficient administration experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL databases.

• Strong skills in SQL scripting, query optimization, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

• Experience with database backup, recovery, replication, high availability, patching, and migration tasks.

• Familiarity with supporting cloud-hosted database environments and implementing database security best practices.

• Ability to work independently in a remote setting while consistently aligning with US Pacific Time business hours.

• Preferred: Practical experience with Microsoft Azure services and a working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and database services.

• Preferred: Experience with Databricks, contemporary data platforms, and ETL/ELT or data integration solutions.

• Preferred: Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Azure DevOps, or Git.

• Preferred: Understanding of cybersecurity, identity and access management, audit controls, and regulated environments.

• Preferred: Relevant certifications in Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, AWS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Databricks.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.

• Flexibility to work from home while aligning with US Pacific Time business hours.