Database Administrator

• 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.

Oracle Database Administrator

• Provide support for production databases including performance monitoring, daily management to prevent data loss, unplanned downtime or performance degradation
• Install, administer, and maintain schema and data to ensure maximum availability
• Analyzes and resolves problems associated with server hardware and application software
• Monitor and optimize data lake ingestion processes
• Participate in a 24x7x365 OnCall Rotation
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and testing exercises

• Responsible for all aspects of Administering the Appian Database
• Perform stored procedures and database performance tuning

Appian Database Administrator

• Perform daily database operations, monitoring, and routine maintenance.
• Support Oracle and/or SQL Server database environments.
• Support daily ETL processes for reporting and data warehouse activities.
• Develop, run, and troubleshoot SQL queries.
• Validate data quality and support interface reconciliation.
• Generate data quality reports and assist with data quality controls.
• Support SFTP-based data transfer processes.
• Provide Tier 1–2 help desk support for database, reporting, data, and interface issues.
• Support MicroStrategy or similar BI/reporting environments.
• Maintain database documentation and support approved change and release processes.

Database Administrator – Journeyman

• Ensuring the stability and reliability of on-premise Oracle database environments through maintenance, monitoring, and security administration
• Supporting application-specific data integrity, managing local user security, and maintaining replication streams using GoldenGate and remote site configurations
• Collaborating with development teams to support application data functions
• Administering on-premise Oracle databases (including Multitenant container/pluggable architectures)
• Creating and managing database user accounts, profiles, and privileges manually
• Monitoring and maintaining Oracle GoldenGate replication processes
• Performing routine database maintenance tasks such as patching, backups (RMAN), and storage management
• Troubleshooting database alerts and basic application performance issues
• Assisting in the deployment of database changes and schema updates to support application releases
• Ensuring database recoverability by conducting regular backup verifications
• Monitoring database performance metrics and executing basic tuning tasks under the guidance of senior staff.

• Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and security of enterprise-level PostgreSQL environments.
• Serve as the "PostgreSQL Subject Matter Expert", providing architectural guidance and best practices
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL database clusters (including HA/DR setups)
• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions (streaming replication, logical replication, failover)
• Perform performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning
• Manage database security, including roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing
• Support backup and recovery strategies (PITR, WAL archiving)
• Troubleshoot database issues, outages, and performance bottlenecks
• Automate database administration tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Ensure compliance with security standards (STIG, RMF, NIST, etc.).

Postgres Database Administrator, SME

• Serve as the "PostgreSQL Subject Matter Expert", providing architectural guidance and best practices.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL database clusters (including HA/DR setups).
• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions (streaming replication, logical replication, failover).
• Perform performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning.
• Manage database security, including roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing.
• Support backup and recovery strategies (PITR, WAL archiving).
• Troubleshoot database issues, outages, and performance bottlenecks.
• Automate database administration tasks using scripting (Bash, Python, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with security standards (STIG, RMF, NIST, etc.).
• Other duties as assigned.

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