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

• 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.

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Senior Database Administrator

Platform Database Administrator, Aurora/MySQL