Senior Cloud Database Administrator (DBA)

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Administer and support production and non-production database environments, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and AWS-managed database services.
• Monitor database health, availability, capacity, and performance to identify issues before they impact clients or internal users.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues, including slow queries, blocking, resource contention, indexing problems, and inefficient application data access patterns.
• Design, implement, and maintain backup, restore, high availability, and disaster recovery processes for mission-critical databases.
• Regularly test recovery procedures to ensure databases can be restored within required business recovery objectives.
• Maintain database security best practices, including access control, permissions, encryption, auditability, and compliance with internal data protection policies.
• Support database patching, upgrades, maintenance windows, and lifecycle management with minimal disruption to business operations.
• Partner with application engineering teams to review database design, improve query performance, optimize schemas, and ensure applications use databases efficiently.
• Establish and maintain database operational standards, documentation, runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and incident response procedures.
• Support cloud database operations in AWS, including RDS, Aurora, EC2-hosted databases, parameter/configuration management, storage planning, replication, and scaling.
• Assist with database migration and modernization efforts, including schema conversion, data movement, validation, performance testing, and production cutover planning.
• Recommend and implement tools, automation, and process improvements that increase database reliability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on DBA experience supporting business-critical production databases.
• Strong expertise with Microsoft SQL Server administration, including performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, security, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience administering PostgreSQL and/or MySQL in production environments.
• Experience operating databases in AWS, especially RDS, Aurora, and EC2-hosted database platforms.
• Strong understanding of database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup strategy, disaster recovery, patching, and operational support practices.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve production database issues, including performance degradation, blocking, failed jobs, replication issues, storage constraints, and application-related database problems.
• Experience working with engineering teams to improve database design, indexing strategies, query performance, and application data access patterns.
• Experience with database migration projects, ideally including SQL Server to PostgreSQL or movement from self-managed databases to AWS-managed database services.
• Ability to develop scripts, automation, reports, or operational tooling to improve database administration and monitoring.
• Familiarity with DocumentDB, OpenSearch, data lakes, or broader cloud data platforms is a plus, but not required.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to operate calmly and effectively in production incident situations.
• A bachelor’s degree required for candidate consideration. MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field is a plus.