Database Administrator

• Serve as a senior technical authority responsible for the performance, integrity, availability, and security of USANA’s Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database environments, including leading on-premises to AWS RDS cloud migration
• Design, implement, and manage Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases with a focus on high availability, reliability, and peak performance
• Conduct regular system audits, capacity planning, and performance tuning — including query optimization, index strategy, and wait-event analysis
• Administer clustering, Always On Availability Groups (AOAG), and replication technologies to ensure continuous data availability
• Maintain robust backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery strategies and regularly validate recoverability targets (RTO/RPO)
• Lead and execute on-premises to AWS RDS migration, covering Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server workloads
• Architect and implement AWS RDS and Aurora configurations, including Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, and automated backups
• Configure AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for schema translation and data transfer
• Develop and maintain advanced Python and Bash automation scripts using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate development
• Design, build, and implement end-to-end automated AI workflows using enterprise AI agent and MCP platforms such as TrueFoundry
• Develop, implement, and enforce database security policies including role-based access control, auditing, data masking, and encryption standards
• Manage database secrets, credentials, and certificates using AWS Secrets Manager and organizational vault solutions
• Collaborate with IT, application development, and data engineering teams to align database architecture with business strategy
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior and mid-level DBAs
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical database incidents and provide timely escalation and resolution

Senior Database Administrator

• Assist with basic database installation, configuration, and routine maintenance tasks under supervision.
• Monitor database performance and availability, escalating issues as needed for resolution.
• Support regular backup, recovery, and data integrity checks to ensure reliable system operations.
• Help maintain user access permissions and follow security protocols to protect sensitive information.
• Participate in data cleanup, updates, and minor troubleshooting activities.
• Document standard procedures and assist in maintaining database records and reports.
• Collaborate with IT staff and developers to support application updates and database connections.
• Learn and apply organizational standards for database management, performance, and compliance.

• Maintain databases across development, QA and production environments in multiple regions
• Continually improve database performance, efficiency, reliability and security
• Design and support fault-tolerant, highly available database architecture, including replication, failover and disaster recovery capabilities
• Administer and optimize AWS database services such as RDS, Redshift and DynamoDB
• Collaborate with DevOps, Engineering and Software Development teams on query optimization, schema design and database management best practices
• Evaluate, test and deploy database changes that support new system deployments, product features and platform improvements
• Manage backup and restore procedures, database monitoring, alerting and incident response
• Help standardize and automate database operations using repeatable tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Use AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve DBA productivity, troubleshooting, analysis and operational efficiency
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems and resolve escalated issues

Senior MySQL Database Administrator – AWS/RDS

• Monitor and maintain database health across production and development environments
• Perform proactive database maintenance including tuning, optimization, and capacity planning
• Apply security patches and ensure database compliance with STIG requirements
• Design and implement database schemas, data models, and migration strategies
• Manage database backup, recovery, and disaster preparedness procedures
• Support development teams with database design, query optimization, and troubleshooting
• Maintain database documentation and runbooks

• Support enterprise-level reporting, analytics, and data management activities
• Design, build, maintain, and optimize reports and dashboards using SQL, MySQL, and Power BI
• Work with large structured and unstructured datasets
• Perform trend analysis, performance analysis, and predictive forecasting
• Provide guidance to business users on metrics, reporting structures, and data interpretation

SQL Database Administrator – Contract

• 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

• General clerical duties as assigned to support department
• Data administration
• Data entry
• Prepare and distribute reports timely and accurately
• All other duties as assigned

• Manage and support multiple database platforms, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Ensure database performance, availability, and reliability across environments
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database issues in production systems
• Implement best practices for database maintenance, backups, and recovery
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application development and data needs
• Optimize queries and database structures for performance and scalability
• Support ongoing growth of data infrastructure as new data sources are introduced
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring dashboards in Datadog.
• Create meaningful alerts that reduce noise and improve operational awareness.
• Define service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and alert thresholds.
• Develop monitoring strategies for databases, applications, infrastructure, and cloud services
• Build executive, operational, and engineering dashboards.

Senior Database Administrator – Reliability, Performance

• 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

• Provide support for Oracle databases, including configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
• Proactively monitor system health, tune SQL queries, optimize indexes, and manage database configurations to prevent performance degradation
• Lead performance tuning and troubleshooting efforts, identifying bottlenecks and implementing effective solutions
• Design, implement, and support high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) strategies, including Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters), Oracle Data Guard, SQL Server Always on Availability Groups and Failover clustering
• Deploy and upgrade multiple versions of Oracle (e.g., 12c, 19c) and Microsoft SQL Server on physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• Implement robust security measures, manage user permissions, access controls, apply patches, and ensure compliance with data governance policies
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and operations to support data-driven initiatives
• Establish and test comprehensive backup strategies to guarantee rapid recovery from system failures or data corruption
• Maintain documentation for Oracle data models, dictionaries, and configurations
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship of fellow DBAs and contributes to strategic database planning

Senior Oracle Database Administrator

• Install, configure, manage, monitor, troubleshoot and tune production, support and develop databases
• Help to define SQL Server architecture and implement environments
• Ensure high availability in the production systems through multiple methods
• Ensure outstanding performance in all systems
• Troubleshoot SQL Server issues as they occur
• Ensure all database servers are backed up in a way that meets the business's Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Test backups to ensure Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) can be met
• Understand and manage SQL Server capacity usage and growth planning
• Design indexes and review query execution plans for optimal performance and operations

Senior Database Administrator II, SQL DBA

• Administer DB2 databases across AIX/Linux environments.
• Manage DB2 on IBM Power Systems (PowerVM LPARs).
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades.
• Manage schemas, tablespaces, indexes.
• Ensure high availability and adherence to SLA compliance.
• Optimize SQL, buffer pools, memory, I/O, and locking mechanisms.
• Execute RUNSTATS and analyze EXPLAIN plans for performance improvements.
• Implement and manage monitoring tools (PRTG, Rapid7, and native DB2 tools).
• Integrate database logs with SIEM platforms (Rapid7).
• Monitor system health: CPU, memory, disk, locking, and query performance.
• Manage storage utilization and tablespace growth.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting.
• Optimize memory structures (e.g., buffer pools, sort heap).
• Manage PowerVM resource allocation.
• Manage backup and restore processes.
• Ensure disaster recovery readiness and conduct regular testing.
• Implement RBAC, encryption, and auditing controls.
• Support compliance efforts (HITRUST, NIST, SOC2).
• Support migrations (AIX → Linux, cloud environments).
• Work with OpenShift and container platforms.
• Contribute to ongoing database modernization efforts.
• Provide performance tuning, backups, and routine maintenance for SQL server.

• Manage and support multiple database platforms, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Ensure database performance, availability, and reliability across environments
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve database issues in production systems
• Implement best practices for database maintenance, backups, and recovery
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support application development and data needs
• Optimize queries and database structures for performance and scalability
• Support ongoing growth of data infrastructure as new data sources are introduced
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring dashboards in Datadog
• Create meaningful alerts that reduce noise and improve operational awareness
• Define service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and alert thresholds
• Develop monitoring strategies for databases, applications, infrastructure, and cloud services
• Build executive, operational, and engineering dashboards.

• Architect, design, engineer, and document database servers and associated infrastructure in clustered, stand-alone, and/or appliance-hosted configurations
• Perform all Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) hardening and configurations for all STIGs that apply to the system hosting the Database
• Lead STIG assessments to ensure the system is hardened to the required level
• Sustain fleet of physical and virtual database-hosting servers running a mix of operating systems (Open Systems and Windows Systems)
• Build, configure, and sustain database server clusters
• Perform daily operations, onsite support, and on-call support for all aspects of database architecture, database platforms, and database management software
• Perform optimization and performance testing, working with both physical and virtual servers and/or appliances, and provides expert-level troubleshooting and technical support for all incidents and issues
• Work with original equipment manufacturers and/or third-party vendors to resolve performance degradations and outages
• Plan, execute, and document server specification changes
• Support and participate in projects relating to the move of systems and services to modernized hosting environments and Cloud capabilities

• Administer, monitor, and maintain MS SQL Server and MongoDB or Oracle or PostgreSQL databases.
• Implement data backup and recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Optimize database performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
• Enforce database security measures to safeguard sensitive data.
• Implement and manage user access and roles to ensure compliance with security policies.
• Work with development teams to design and implement database solutions that support application requirements.
• Set up and utilize monitoring tools to track database performance and address bottlenecks.
• Generate reports on system performance, availability, and other relevant metrics.
• Perform routine database maintenance tasks, including patching and updates for both MS SQL Server and MongoDB or Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements for database architecture and software tools.

Senior Database Administrator, SQL

• Support and maintain large-scale Db2 databases on z/OS for business-critical trading and brokerage applications
• Design, configure, and maintain low-latency data replication using IBM IIDR (Q Rep / CDC) in Active-Active and Active-Passive architectures
• Perform proactive performance analysis and tuning to ensure optimal response times and system stability
• Lead troubleshooting and rapid resolution of complex, time-sensitive production issues with a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7 production support for critical database platforms
• Collaborate with application teams, infrastructure partners, and vendors to deliver resilient, scalable database solutions

Principal Database Administrator, DBA – Mainframe Db2 z/OS

• 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

• Will be responsible for providing all activities related to the administration of computerized databases.
• Project long-range requirements for database administration and design in conjunction with other managers in the information systems function.
• Design, create, and maintain databases in a client/server environment.
• Conduct quality control and auditing of databases in a client/server environment to ensure accurate and appropriate use of data.
• Advise users on access to various client/server databases.
• Design, implement, and maintain complex databases with respect to JCL, access methods, access time, device allocation, validation checks, organization, protection and security, documentation, and statistical methods.
• Apply knowledge and experience with database technologies, development methodologies, and front-end/back-end programming languages (e.g., SQL).
• Perform database programming and supports systems design.
• Provide maintenance of database dictionaries, overall monitoring of standards and procedures, file design and storage, and integration of systems through database design.

Oracle Database Administrator

• Lead the design and delivery of database engineering solutions for mission-critical platforms
• Perform applications database administration services including SQL code review, performance analysis, and database application design
• Lead proof of concept efforts to evaluate and enable new technology solutions
• Establish database standards for operations, upgrades, migrations and onboarding new applications and/or clients
• Write clear, concise, well organized technical documentation

Director, Database Administration

• Design, install, monitor, maintain, and optimize Network Health Plan databases
• Ensure high levels of data availability
• Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures for database security, integrity and performance
• Participate in installation, configuration and testing of database systems
• Optimize database performance
• Control access permissions and privileges to maintain data integrity and security
• Provide long-term perspective on database technology to business opportunities

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