Senior Database Administrator
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JobgetherSecurity & IT
United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary$125,000–$140,000 annually
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLNosql
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience administering SQL Server databases in production environments.
- Strong expertise in database monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability/disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience analyzing execution plans, database logs, and performance metrics to resolve complex database issues.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing database objects across multiple environments.
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Experience with AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, CloudWatch), automation scripting (T-SQL, PowerShell, CLI), NoSQL technologies, very large databases (VLDBs), or database monitoring platforms is considered a strong advantage.
- Relevant database or cloud certifications are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Manage the health, availability, performance, and security of SQL Server and MySQL database environments across on-premises and AWS infrastructure.
- Monitor database operations, backups, maintenance tasks, and system performance to proactively identify and resolve issues within established service levels.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex database incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
- Collaborate with cloud, application development, and engineering teams to support scalable deployments, database architecture improvements, and performance initiatives.
- Deploy and maintain database objects including tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, and other database components across multiple environments.
- Help define and maintain database security standards, operational best practices, and resiliency initiatives while participating in a 24/7 on-call support rotation.
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