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.

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.

Senior Database Administrator – Reliability, Performance

• Designing, architecting, building, and maintaining databases from business requirements
• Installing and configuring the database environment
• Monitoring server, instance, and database performance
• Developing, scheduling and managing jobs to ensure nightly backups are created
• Recovering data using restored data files or database backups
• Implementing security settings as required by the CIS Benchmarks for database servers
• Providing Level II Help Desk support for software products
• Maintaining and updating operations manuals, annual reviews, disaster recovery plans, and other documents regarding database software

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