Database Administrator

• Ensure database security and authentication.
• Design and implement least privilege and encryption on all databases.
• Develop and enforce database documentation standards.
• Manage and implement database replication and high availability.
• Maintain and improve existing backup and data recovery environment.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and participate in regular testing.
• Install and Upgrade database environment.
• Manage database migrations between systems, versions, or platforms.
• Query and database tuning.
• Database resource management and reporting.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis on database incidents and provide preventative solutions.
• Monitor database performance metrics and resolve issues proactively.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize queries.
• Perform on call rotation.
• Maintain and develop various database scripts and tools to facilitate automation process.
• Automate routine database maintenance tasks to improve efficiency.
• Evaluate database requests for implementation.
• Provide status reports and submit them to management.
• Provide training and mentorship to others.
• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

Senior Database Administrator

• Develop and implement data ingestion solutions using AWS database and cloud-native technologies.
• Design, administer, and optimize relational and NoSQL database environments, including Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, Oracle), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, and Amazon S3.
• Utilize AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate, replicate, and modernize database environments.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend AWS data storage architectures and database technologies to support business and technical requirements.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and automate database solutions, including infrastructure and database build processes.
• Develop automation and administrative scripts using Python and/or Bash.
• Monitor database usage, performance, and capacity; conduct performance tuning and provide recommendations for system optimization.
• Design and implement indexing strategies, replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions across multiple AWS Regions.
• Develop, test, implement, and maintain SQL code, stored procedures, database applications, and other database objects.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient data models supporting transactional, analytical, and hybrid workloads.
• Design, build, and support cloud-based Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and modern enterprise data platforms.
• Lead the design and implementation of modern database architectures that support cloud migration and application modernization initiatives.
• Maintain database security, access controls, and data integrity to protect organizational information assets.
• Develop and enforce database administration policies, standards, procedures, and governance practices.

AWS Database Administration

• Own the end-to-end product roadmap for Ditto's cloud database
• Own the data flow story for Ditto Cloud
• Define and maintain customer-facing database SLAs
• Own the data migration story
• Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand workload patterns
• Serve as the go-to voice on the customer data layer inside engineering
• Collaborate with GTM and field teams to build enablement assets
• Define success metrics for database reliability and drive accountability against them

Senior Product Manager – Cloud Database, Integrations

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Oracle database administration including installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Manage database backup and recovery procedures ensuring data integrity and availability.
• Create & manage user accounts, define access controls and adhere to security best practices.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and bottlenecks and implement optimization techniques.
• Collaborate with developers to optimize queries and enhance database performance.
• Maintain understanding of clustering technologies and data encryption.
• Create knowledge base of topics such as backup/restore procedures, performance tuning and security best practices.
• Participate in knowledge transfer and document best practices, procedures and solutions.

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