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# Database Administrator - Azure SQL / Amazon RDS / Percona MySQL (Healthcare SaaS)

- **Company:** National Dental Association
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Application Layers, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, C Sharp (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Information Systems, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Integration, Database Connection, Database Design, Software Debugging, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Failover, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Visual Basic .NET (Programming Language), MySQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Operational Databases, Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Query Optimization, Cloud Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Transact-SQL, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Azure Data Factory, Cloud Monitoring, AWS Lambda, Indexer, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Database Migration, Microsoft Fabric, Amazon Relational Database Service, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure Synapse Analytics, New Relic (SaaS), Serverless Computing
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/65975979-9d48-42d6-b051-466a7053c573

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree + 3 years of DBA experience, or 6+ years of equivalent professional DBA experience
 * Hands-on production administration of Azure SQL / cloud-hosted SQL Server, Amazon RDS, and Percona MySQL or MySQL in high-volume environments
 * Experience protecting regulated healthcare or similarly sensitive data - encryption, auditing, access controls, security remediation
 * Experience operating against defined RPO, RTO, availability, and data-retention requirements
 * Experience supporting 24×7 SaaS or mission-critical production platforms
 * Proven ability to maintain data integrity across high-volume ingestion, replication, or integration processes
 * Strong database design, configuration, and production administration knowledge
 * Writing, maintaining, and debugging complex T-SQL and MySQL stored procedures
 * High-availability, replication, failover, backup/recovery, DR, and business-continuity experience across Azure SQL, Percona MySQL, and/or RDS
 * Expert-level performance tuning: execution plans, indexing, statistics, blocking, deadlocks, wait statistics, resource utilization
 * Cloud database administration including monitoring, security, scaling, availability, backup/recovery, and cost management
 * Ability to work with minimal supervision, manage multiple priorities, and participate in on-call
 * Strong written and verbal communication; able to document and explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, * Azure: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Monitor, Azure networking/storage/security; cloud SQL Server migrations

## Description

NDA Partners is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own production database operations for a healthcare technology platform delivering risk adjustment, quality, and value-based care solutions. You'll administer Azure SQL, Amazon RDS, and Percona MySQL in high-availability, high-transaction, 24×7 SaaS environments, with emphasis on healthcare data security, performance, disaster recovery, and automation. This is a hands-on role with little supervision, an on-call rotation, and a mentoring responsibility toward DBA I/II and database engineers., * Administer and support Azure SQL (Database and Managed Instance), Amazon RDS, and Percona MySQL in high-volume, highly transactional production environments

 * Design, monitor, test, and improve high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions; validate RPO/RTO, backup integrity, replication, and failover through regular DR exercises
 * Implement and maintain database configurations, security controls (encryption, auditing, access controls), maintenance procedures, backup/recovery, and monitoring standards
 * Performance tuning and troubleshooting across engines, OS, cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, and application layers - execution plans, wait stats, blocking, deadlocks, indexing, statistics, query optimization
 * Provision, configure, scale, secure, and operate Amazon RDS deployments; manage Percona MySQL replication, XtraBackup, upgrades, and migrations
 * Review schemas, database changes, and application SQL for performance, reliability, security, and supportability; support application debugging across the app/database boundary
 * Automate routine DBA activities with PowerShell, Python, or Bash, cloud services, and infrastructure automation
 * Lead database migrations and modernization (on-prem * cloud, cross-platform)
 * Evaluate new database technologies, cloud services, and monitoring platforms
 * Participate in on-call rotation and production incident resolution
 * Maintain accurate documentation of environments, configurations, procedures, and recovery processes
 * Mentor junior DBAs and serve as a technical resource across engineering, * AWS: Amazon RDS, EC2, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC; supporting serverless/event-driven workloads (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge Scheduler) including database connectivity
 * Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraBackup, MySQL replication technologies
 * Large-scale, high-volume, highly transactional environments
 * Monitoring/observability: LogicMonitor, New Relic, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, or similar
 * Automation and scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash
 * Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, CI/CD, automated database deployments
 * Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse Analytics, or similar data integration platforms
 * .NET / C# / VB.NET, XML, REST APIs, SOA, or object-oriented development
 * Enterprise data governance, security, auditing, and compliance (HIPAA)
 * Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Technical Environment
Azure SQL Database & Managed Instance · Amazon RDS · Percona Server for MySQL · SQL Server · Azure Monitor · CloudWatch · AWS Lambda / SQS / EventBridge · PowerShell / Python / Bash · IaC & CI/CD