Senior Data Base Administrator

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to take ownership of performance, reliability, and evolution of mission-critical healthcare data platforms. This is not a traditional DBA role. You will operate at the intersection of customer environments and product engineering, spending approximately:

• 60% working directly with healthcare customers
• 40% partnering with R&D and engineering teams

Responsibilities

– Customer-Facing (≈60%)

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers on database performance, architecture, and reliability
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in high-pressure healthcare environments
• Optimize systems supporting clinical imaging and patient data workflows
• Guide customers through best practices for hybrid database deployments
• Support upgrades, migrations, and environment stabilization efforts

– Engineering & Platform (≈40%)

• Partner with R&D to improve database architecture, scalability, and observability
• Contribute to modernization initiatives, including PostgreSQL adoption and cloud optimization
• Build automation for monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery workflows
• Influence product design by bringing real-world customer challenges into engineering decisions

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience in production environments
• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Proven experience managing hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud)
• Experience in customer-facing or production support roles
• Deep knowledge of performance tuning, high availability/disaster recovery, and backup/recovery strategies
• Ability to operate effectively in 24/7, mission-critical environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare IT environments
• Familiarity with DICOM, HL7, or FHIR
• Experience with clinical imaging systems (VNA, PACS)
• Experience with large-scale data systems (TB-scale and beyond)
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures and containerization/Kubernetes
• Experience with database migration and modernization initiatives