Manager, Database Administration

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

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for enterprise database services across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing database administration team.

• Develop and execute the enterprise database technology roadmap.

• Guide database services across Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, AWS, GCP, and emerging technologies.

• Oversee database availability, performance, capacity, security, lifecycle management, monitoring, incident management, patching, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Direct project intake, work prioritization, resource allocation, and service request management.

• Champion database automation, Infrastructure as Code, standardized deployments, configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

• Partner with Cloud Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Application Development teams.

• Provide technical guidance on database architecture, performance optimization, access controls, data protection, regulatory compliance, HIPAA, and sensitive information protection.

• Identify opportunities to simplify the database landscape, optimize infrastructure and licensing costs, reduce technical debt, and improve operational resilience.

• Establish service performance indicators and communicate risks and improvement opportunities to leadership.

• Demonstrate EVERSANA core values, particularly the principle of “Always Innovate.”

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in database administration, database engineering, or enterprise data platform operations.

• 3+ years of technical team leadership or people management experience.

• Experience leading database operations in a complex enterprise environment.

• Strong Microsoft SQL Server administration skills, including high availability, performance management, security, backup and recovery, and database lifecycle management.

• Working knowledge of cloud database services and architectures across at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud.

• Understanding of database security, access management, data protection, disaster recovery, and operational risk management.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, automation, version control, CI/CD, and infrastructure management.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, manage competing priorities, and drive continuous improvement.

• Preferred: experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, Google BigQuery, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, database observability, data warehousing, cloud migration, HIPAA, Windows Server, Linux, and relevant certifications.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits.

• Reasonable accommodation for employees and applicants with disabilities.

• 40 hours per week, 5 days per week.

• 10% travel expectation.

• Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace.

• Professional development and coaching opportunities.

• Global team and collaboration opportunities.