Senior Database Administrator

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

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate replication models and high-availability solutions, including clustering and multi-AZ deployments.

• Serve as the subject matter expert in the design, implementation, and upkeep of primary SQL Server infrastructure.

• Support, monitor, and manage Oracle Exadata@AWS, AWS Aurora MySQL, and PostgreSQL platforms.

• Ensure data consistency across distributed SaaS environments and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.

• Design and implement comprehensive disaster recovery strategies in line with RPO and RTO requirements.

• Engage in disaster recovery exercises, automated failover testing, and resilience demonstrations.

• Establish and enforce automated data retention, archiving, and purging policies that comply with healthcare industry standards.

• Implement security protocols, including TDE, role-based security, and unified auditing.

• Lead efforts in performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity management for high-volume transactional SaaS workloads.

• Monitor and analyze performance metrics to pinpoint and resolve resource contention issues.

• Provide guidance on database modernization strategies towards cloud-native or containerized architectures.

• Develop standards for database schema design, storage structures, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.

• Create standard operating procedures for database operations, maintenance, patching, and ticket escalation.

• Build and advocate for an Operations-as-Code model using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Mentor the team on automation best practices.

• Carry out additional duties as assigned.

• Travel up to 10%, which may include overnight trips.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, along with relevant experience.

• Over 6 years in database administration, with a minimum of 4 years in an enterprise SaaS setting.

• Proficient in AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, OCI, and relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server in both Cloud and On-Prem environments.

• Familiarity with No-SQL solutions such as Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, or Cassandra.

• Advanced automation and scripting capabilities using Python, Bash, Terraform, or Ansible.

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale data migrations and zero-downtime upgrades.

• Ability to lead a War Room during critical outages and work collaboratively with operations staff and executive stakeholders.

• Experience working with distributed or offshore operations teams in a follow-the-sun support model.

• Capability to evaluate license and hosting agreements from a performance and cost standpoint.

• Strong analytical thinking and complex problem-solving skills, with the ability to convey technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders.

• Openness to explore and responsibly adopt AI tools.

• Candidates must reside in the EST or CST time zones within the US.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive health plans.

• Paid time off.

• Company-paid holidays.

• 401K retirement plan with company-matched contributions.

• Other company-sponsored programs.