Database Administrator

Versana

Database Administrator focusing on performance optimization in Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle environments at Versana. Collaborating with engineering teams to enhance SQL execution and data access patterns.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureJavaKubernetesOraclePostgresPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive performance optimization and operational excellence across Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle environments—tuning SQL and improving data access patterns.
Monitor database health, performance, and capacity using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.
Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
Administer access controls and user provisioning in alignment with security and financial compliance requirements.
Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application’s data access layer using Datadog APM traces.
Read and understand Java code to trace data access patterns and ensure tuning aligns with how the application interacts with the database.
Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape efficient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies.
Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring and work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments.
Establish and track performance baselines for business-critical queries and implement anomaly detection.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience supporting relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform for database changes, automation, and releases.
Proficiency with Datadog (or similar observability tools) for performance monitoring and alerting across database and application layers.
Ability to read and understand Java application code to trace data access patterns.
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Hands-on administration of Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including configuration, upgrades, and parameter tuning.
Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery (replication, failover, RPO/RTO), including regular testing.
Strong performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis (EXPLAIN), indexing strategy, query rewrites, and diagnosing locking/contention.
Experience implementing database security best practices, including encryption, secrets management, role-based access, and audit logging.
Ability to automate DBA workflows using Python, Bash, or PowerShell (maintenance, backup verification, provisioning, alerting).
Comfort participating in an on-call rotation, leading incident triage, and writing post-incident reviews with corrective and preventive actions.
Hands-on administration of Oracle Database including installation, configuration, upgrades, parameter tuning, and backups using RMAN.
Experience with distributed databases, such as CockroachDB.
Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes

Benefits

Comp & perks

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role at this time

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgreSQLOracleSQL tuningperformance monitoringdisaster recoverydatabase securityexecution plan analysisautomationhigh availabilitydistributed databases

Soft Skills

strong communicationcollaborationincident triageproblem-solvinganalytical thinking