Senior Database Administrator

The Senior Database Administrator will manage, secure, monitor, and optimize databases supporting a shared enterprise platform. The role focuses on database performance, availability, scalability, backup and recovery, security, and operational reliability within AWS cloud environments.

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Database Administrator, including AWS cloud database administration.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server.
• Strong AWS knowledge, including networking, security, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Strong Windows Server administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency in SQL, query optimization, indexing, execution plan analysis, and database performance tuning.
• Experience with database backup and recovery, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, patching, and upgrades.
• Strong understanding of database security, access management, encryption, auditing, data modeling, governance, and data integrity.
• Experience with database monitoring, incident resolution, capacity planning, and resource optimization.
• Experience managing schema changes, database upgrades, configuration changes, and releases while maintaining application compatibility.
• Experience collaborating with data architects and application developers on database design, data modeling, integration, and performance improvements.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Experience:

• Databases supporting shared enterprise platforms and multiple applications.
• AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, and AWS networking/security services.
• Database automation, infrastructure as code, scripting, and change management.
• Database migration, replication, performance benchmarking, and cost optimization.
• Enterprise or regulated environments with established security and operational controls.