Senior DBA Engineer, Fuze Care Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +34 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy and implementation of the transition from self-managed SQL Server on EC2 to AWS RDS (SQL Server).

• Drive initiatives for database cost efficiency: optimizing instance sizes, assessing Reserved Instances, implementing storage tiering, and removing unnecessary licensing expenses.

• Enhance skills and mentor the current Hospice SQL DBA team in AWS database operations, RDS management, and cloud best practices.

• Establish cloud-native database monitoring, alerting, and performance benchmarks utilizing Datadog and CloudWatch.

• Design and implement automated processes for backup, restoration, and disaster recovery using AWS Backup.

• Conduct query optimization, index management, and capacity planning.

• Collaborate with the DevOps team on infrastructure automation using Terraform for RDS.

• Ensure compliance with HITRUST E1 for all database systems, including encryption, access controls, and audit logging.

• Provide support to the Hospice application team for database-related development requirements.

• Assess potential future database modernization initiatives (PostgreSQL, Aurora) for the 2027 roadmap.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in database administration.

• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server (2016+) performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery.

• Experience with the setup, migration, and monitoring of AWS RDS (SQL Server), including Multi-AZ deployments.

• Proven experience in database migration projects (from on-premises or EC2 to RDS).

• Strong grasp of backup/restore strategies, point-in-time recovery, and cross-region replication.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and SQL Server DMVs.

• Proficient in T-SQL, stored procedures, and query optimization techniques.

• Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2).

🏝️ Benefits

• Dental, vision, and various group medical plans available.

• A 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Group life insurance coverage.

• Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.

• Flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA).

• Commuter benefits.

• Employer-paid short-term (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) insurance.

• Additional supplemental insurance plans available (spouse life insurance, legal insurance, employee assistance program, home health testing kits, and fertility medication discount program).

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Accrued paid sick leave.

• 10 paid holidays.

• Two floating holidays for full-time non-exempt employees.

• Eight weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees.

• Additional paid weeks for the birthing parent.

• Four weeks of paid caregiver leave.

• A monthly Lifestyle Spending Account allowance.