Database Administrator

• Install, configure, and maintain SQL Server databases, on-prem, hosted, and in Azure
• Monitor database performance, tuning queries, and optimizing indexes
• Perform backups, restores, and disaster recovery planning
• Implement and manage database security, including access controls and encryption
• Implement and manage HA/DR scenarios (including AOAG, shared storage clusters, third party solutions) for unique deployment situations
• Develop and maintain database documentation and best practices
• Work closely within the ITS team on SQL health and performance
• Lead as needed for SQL maintenance, backups, monitoring, and reporting
• Design HA/DR scenarios for on-prem, hosted, and cloud deployments
• Work closely with developers to optimize queries and improve application performance
• Provide deep dive investigation for application and database-related issues
• Develop and maintain documentation for IT processes and database configurations

Database Architect

• Support multiple product teams across Dealer Solutions and play a key role in cloud migration initiatives
• Manage, optimize, and re-architect the current on-premises database environment
• Stabilize and remediate the existing database infrastructure, then design and execute a phased migration to AWS
• Manage and support enterprise-scale Microsoft SQL Server environments, including databases in the 10+ terabyte range
• Lead and participate in SQL Server upgrades, version migrations, patching, and maintenance efforts with minimal disruption to business-critical applications
• Design, implement, and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Monitor and optimize database performance, availability, and reliability
• Perform and validate database backup, recovery, and maintenance activities
• Develop automation using PowerShell, T-SQL, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
• Support enterprise monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions

Senior Database Administrator

• Administer Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, pools, permissions, and configurations
• Implement governance, access controls, secrets management, and workspace policies
• Ensure cost-efficient compute usage through autoscaling, cluster policies, and monitoring
• Monitor performance of Databricks jobs, SQL warehouses, and underlying storage
• Proactively tune clusters, SQL environments, and pipelines to ensure high availability
• Maintain observability through monitoring platforms, SQL Server, Databricks Metrics, and alerting
• Resolve data platform issues related to cluster performance, job failures, permissions, or integration points
• Collaborate with data engineering and development teams to troubleshoot environment-level issues
• Implement platform-wide security standards: SQL roles, Azure RBAC, network rules, Unity Catalog privileges
• Support compliance and governance across cloud data services and SQL Server environments
• Diagnose and resolve database-related issues, working closely with the IT team to troubleshoot and minimize disruptions
• Maintain documentation of environments, policies, network architecture, data access patterns, and cluster standards

Cloud Database Administrator – Buffalo/WNY Region

• As the Platform Database Administrator (DBA) for Aurora, serve as the architectural and operational anchor for high-scale database environments.
• Bridge the gap between technical data layers and production feature engineering.
• Take full ownership of database performance tuning, optimization strategies, and system reliability across core software suites.
• Sustain consistent system performance and reliability across 400+ database schemas, managing comprehensive schema migrations and tracking client-specific data growth metrics.
• Supervise AWS Aurora-specific environments, orchestrating cluster endpoint routing configurations, managing failover behaviors, executing parameter tuning, and troubleshooting data warehouse / read replica lags.
• Apply deep knowledge of InnoDB core internals to manage lock behaviors, resolve complex lock contentions, adjust buffer pool parameters, and systematically reduce purge lags across write-heavy database clusters.
• Diagnose and optimize heavy database pipelines utilizing INSERT...SELECT queries and computed-table patterns.
• Analyze Aurora instance utilization models against pricing factors to right-size compute resources and minimize I/O waste stemming from unoptimized queries.

Platform Database Administrator, Aurora/MySQL

• Assist in managing AWS RDS instances by monitoring database health, identifying performance issues, and participating in root-cause investigations
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to ensure 24/7 database availability and rapid response to production incidents across our global infrastructure
• Execute quarterly patching, monthly index reviews, and backup integrity testing within a live production environment
• Advance your T-SQL knowledge by participating in code reviews and assisting Developer and TechOps teams with query optimization and execution
• Utilize Python, PowerShell, and other scripting languages to build or maintain automation tools (e.g., AWS Lambdas, GitHub Action workflows, etc.)
• Manage user permissions, SOPs, and disaster recovery runbooks while helping ensure regulatory framework compliance (including HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC2) across all database systems

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Database Architect

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