Senior Database Administrator

HHA eXchangeHealthcare technology

This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only., EST or CSTFull-TimeSenior

Salary125,000 - 140,000 USD per year

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Experience: 6+ years in database administration, with at least 4 years within an enterprise SaaS environment.
Required Skills: PostgreSQLPythonBashMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLOracleTerraformAnsible

Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, with applicable experience.
Have 6+ years of database administration experience, including at least 4 years in an enterprise SaaS environment.
Bring expertise with cloud data platforms such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, or OCI.
Have experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server in cloud and on-premises environments.
Have experience with NoSQL solutions such as Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
Demonstrate advanced automation and scripting skills in Python, Bash, Terraform, or Ansible.
Have proven experience with large-scale data migration and zero-downtime upgrades.
Be able to lead a war room during critical outages and collaborate with operations staff and executive stakeholders.
Have experience collaborating with distributed or offshore operations teams in a follow-the-sun support model.
Be able to analyze license and hosting agreements from performance and cost perspectives.
Demonstrate analytical thinking, complex problem-solving, and the ability to communicate technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders.

Maintain complex replication models and high-availability solutions, including clustering and multi-AZ deployments.
Design, implement, and maintain the primary SQL Server infrastructure.
Support, monitor, and maintain Oracle Exadata@AWS, AWS Aurora MySQL, and PostgreSQL platforms.
Ensure data consistency across distributed SaaS environments and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.
Design and implement disaster recovery strategies and participate in DR exercises and automated failover testing.
Establish automated data retention, archiving, and purging policies.
Implement database security measures, including transparent data encryption, role-based security, and unified auditing.
Tune performance, optimize queries, manage capacity, and resolve resource contention.
Advise on database modernization and develop standards for schema design, storage, and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Establish database operations procedures and promote automation using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.

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