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

Junior Database Administrator

• 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.

• Manages the design, development, maintenance, upkeep, and safety of complex physical databases.
• Provides strategic level technical leadership to the database programming group, IT, and the enterprise.
• Coordinates software issues with other IT organizations.
• Oversees the contributions and efforts by customers of other IT functions to develop and improve databases and master files.
• Performs technical audits of all internal databases.
• Performs functions, such as backup and recovery, database consistency checking, loading and unloading of data.
• Identifies new initiatives and makes recommendations for database growth and integration.

Mainframe Database Manager 4 – Mainframe Db2, IMS Database

• Administer, monitor and maintain SQL Server databases
• Perform performance tuning, query optimization and troubleshooting
• Manage backups, restores and high availability (HA/DR) solutions
• Ensure database security, integrity and compliance
• Develop and manage data pipelines using Databricks
• Work with large-scale data processing using Spark (PySpark/Scala)
• Support ETL/ELT workflows and data transformations
• Optimize data processing for performance and scalability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support data platform initiatives

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Cloud Database Administrator – Buffalo/WNY Region

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Junior Database Administrator

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Mainframe Database Manager 4 – Mainframe Db2, IMS Database

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