Principal Database Administrator

Cox Automotive is seeking a Principal Database Administrator to lead the design, optimization, and reliability of large-scale database platforms supporting our automotive marketplaces and software products. In this role, you will define database standards, architect high-availability and disaster recovery solutions, and optimize performance for mission-critical transactional and analytics workloads. You will mentor DBAs, partner with engineering and product teams on data-intensive features, and drive automation, security, and compliance across on-prem and cloud database environments in a collaborative, people-first culture., * Design and maintain scalable, secure database architectures for high-volume applications

• Own database performance tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning
• Implement and manage high-availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
• Develop and enforce database standards, security policies, and best practices
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams on data-intensive features and migrations
• Drive automation of database provisioning, deployments, and maintenance tasks
• Lead root-cause analysis and remediation of complex database incidents
• Mentor and guide DBAs and engineers on database design and optimization
• Partner with Info
• Sec to ensure compliance, access control, and data protection
• Evaluate and integrate new database technologies and cloud data services

• Database architecture and design
• SQL performance tuning and optimization
• High-availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)
• Backup, recovery, and replication strategies
• Cloud database platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Scripting and automation (Power
• Shell, Bash, Python)
• Database security and encryption
• Query design and optimization
• Monitoring and observability tools
• Capacity planning and scalability
• Incident response and root cause analysis
• Linux/Windows server administration basics
• Data modeling and schema design
• Version control and CI/CD for database changes
• Cross-functional technical collaboration