Senior Database Administrator
Senior Database Administrator
Posted today
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
- Own database reliability, performance, and availability
- Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments
- Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAsLead data warehouse operations in AWSOwn and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases
- Manage database security and access controls
- Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing
- Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability
- Collaborate cross-functionally
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs
- Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership
- Drive operational excellence and automation
- Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring
- You might thrive in this role if you have 7+ years of experiencemanaging production database environments
- Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DRStrong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift
- Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams
- Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency
- Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools)
- Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms
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