Own day-to-day operations and advanced administration of AWS RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server, including configuration, patching, scaling, and troubleshooting
Implement and refine database standards, automation, and operational runbooks to ensure availability, performance, security, and compliance across all environments
Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query tuning, and data lifecycle management to optimize workload performance and cost
Design, build, and maintain automation for provisioning, patching, backups, cloning, and monitoring using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and native AWS services like CloudWatch and Systems Manager
Implement and enhance observability for databases, including metrics, logs, traces, alert thresholds, and performance dashboards to enable proactive detection and rapid diagnosis of issues
Design and validate high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies across regions and accounts, including regular testing and documentation of recovery procedures
Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation for production database incidents, leading technical response for Sev1/Sev2 events and driving toward rapid containment and resolution
Mentor other Database Administrators and platform engineers through design reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing, helping elevate overall team capability while remaining as an individual contributor
Own and standardize database schema change management across the organization using tools such as Liquibase, ensuring all changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, auditable, and safely deployable

Requirements

Minimum 9 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator
Extensive hands-on experience operating production workloads on Amazon RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server in a SaaS or large-scale cloud environment
Proven expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and troubleshooting complex database issues under time pressure
Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash)
Demonstrated experience in 24x7 operations, on-call support, and incident management, including working with or within MSP models
Solid understanding of HA/DR patterns, replication, backup and restore strategies, and security best practices for cloud databases
Hands-on experience implementing database schema change management tools (Liquibase or equivalent) in CI/CD pipelines

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Telehealth
401(k) and 401(k) match
Life and AD&D insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
FTO or PTO
Employee Well-Being program
11 paid holidays plus 1 inclusive holiday per year
Volunteer Time Off
Employee Referral program
Education Reimbursement Program
Employee Recognition and Appreciation program
Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills

AWS RDSPostgresMySQLAuroraMongoDB AtlasMicrosoft SQL Serverperformance tuningquery optimizationinfrastructure-as-codescripting

Soft skills

collaborationmentoringincident managementproblem-solvingcommunication