Database administrator jobs in the United States

Find database administrator jobs across the United States. Choose a place, compare current openings and read the employer’s requirements.

Counted Oct 27, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 1,128
Employers: 587

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $113,204Across 177 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $51.66Across 106 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 10%109 listings
Hybrid: 6%70 listings
On-site: 17%191 listings

Not specified: 67% (758 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (51), Highmark Health (45), Contact Government Services, LLC (40).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Database administrator jobs in the United States

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Database Administrator MS Access (User Support and Developer), Emerging Talent Intern (Spring)
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Brooklyn, NY
- $19 USD / hour
Position Title: Database Administrator MS Access, Emerging Talent Intern
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Oracle Database Administrator
St. George's University
Englewood, CO · Great River, NY · MI · IL · PA · CA · NC · CT · NJ · FL · SC · TX · Billings, MT · Ivins, UT
- $124,000 to $135,000 USD / year
The Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) will assist in directing and performing all activities related to maintaining a
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Experienced Database Administrator
Gainwell Technologies LLC
Any city, AR
- $83,100 to $118,700 USD / year
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Experienced Database Administrator
Gainwell Technologies LLC
Any city, TX
- $83,100 to $118,700 USD / year
Added 6 hours ago
UG
Senior Cloud Database Administrator - Remote
UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN
- $91,700 to $163,700 USD / year
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Senior Database Administrator / Database Reliability Engineer
Clicklease
Draper, UT
Added 7 hours ago
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ITS14 - Database Administrator Specialist
State of Michigan
Lansing, MI
- $38.75 to $56.64 USD / hour
Added 7 hours ago
SO
ITPA12 - Senior Database Administrator
State of Michigan
Lansing, MI
- $34.45 to $49.53 USD / hour
Added 9 hours ago
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Database Administrator (Vertica/Sybase) - BACJP00225565
Dhaka Technologies Limited Company
Jersey City, NJ
- $65 to $68 USD / hour
Dhaka Technologies Limited Company (DTLC) is hiring a Database Administrator (Vertica/Sybase) on behal
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Sql Database Administrator
TEKsystems
Wichita, KS
- $50 to $60 USD / hour
Apply security patches/updates to dev/uat/prod database servers for end users or support to test
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Database Administrator
Dupaco
Dubuque, IA
Join a team where data is at the heart of everything we do. As the Database Administrator, you'll be responsible for maintaining a secure, high-performing database environment that enables…
Added 10 hours ago
Senior Database Administrator
FORTEC Integrated
Remote, United States
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be the primary stakeholder for the company, performance, and integrity of our products' data environments. We are looking for a technical expert…
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Senior Database Administrator
FORTEC Integrated
Remote, United States
As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be the primary stakeholder for the company, performance, and integrity of our products' data environments. We are looking for a technical expert…
Added 10 hours ago
UG
Senior Cloud Database Administrator - Remote
UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN
- $91,700 to $163,700 USD / year
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Database Administrator
Robert Half
Battle Creek, MI
- $66.5 to $77 USD / hour
We are looking for a Database Administrator to support critical enterprise systems and data operations for a non-profit organization in Battle Creek, Michigan. This Long-term Contract…
Added 11 hours ago
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Database Administrator*
Orange County Government
Hillsborough, NC
- $75,870 to $98,000 USD / year
The Orange County Information Technologies Department has an opening for a Database Administrator. The work involves the responsibility for installing, configuring, maintaining, and…
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Database Administrator II
ManpowerGroup
Plano, TX
- $53.41 USD / hour
Title: System / Software Engineer (DB2 Replication / CDC) – Database Administrator II
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Database Administrator - Associate
Agile Defense
Fort Huachuca, AZ
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Senior Database Administrator
SAIC
Middletown, RI
SAIC is seeking a skilled Senior Database Administrator in Middletown, RI to administer, maintain, secure and optimize Microsoft SQL Server environments supporting business-critical…
Added 12 hours ago
Database Administrator II
LCEC
North Fort Myers, FL
Added 17 hours ago
Teamcenter Database Administrator
Williams International
Pontiac, MI
Added 17 hours ago
CO
Database Administrator 2
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, PA
- $89,996 to $136,842 USD / year
The Public Safety Information Technology Delivery Center is looking for a Database Administrator 2 who is ready to make a difference behind the scenes in the Solutions Management Division.…
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Database Administrator
Accenture
Washington, DC
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Database Administrator*
Madison, City of (WI)
Madison, WI
- $39.31 to $46.65 USD / hour
The City of Madison Information Technology Department is looking to hire a Database Administrator to provide database administrator duties for SQL databases, SQL Server Reporting Services,…
Added 1 day ago
Database Administrator 1/2/3 (Health Data Solutions Architect - PCN 168015)
State of Alaska
Anchorage, AK · Juneau, AK · Fairbanks, AK

FORTEC Integrated

Senior Database Administrator

Remote, United States

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Job details

Experience: Minimum 3-10 years of experience as a Database Administrator in high-performance production environments.
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 26, 2026

Original job description

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be the primary stakeholder for the company, performance, and integrity of our products' data environments. We are looking for a technical expert who lives and breathes database engines, specifically CloudSQL/PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Experience with MSSQL and MySQL is a significant plus. You will be responsible for ensuring our systems are not only up and running but are optimized for cost and tuned for peak performance. This is a role for someone who wants to know exactly how the system works, how it will fail, and how to drive it to be better.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Database Expertise: Be an expert at deploying, configuring, and maintaining CloudSQL/PostgreSQL (main focus), MSSQL (migration from), MySQL, and MongoDB. Understand the nuances between them and how to leverage cloud-native solutions effectively.

Data Lifecycle & Ownership: Understand that data value extends beyond the production database. Take ownership of the pipelines and processing layers, ensuring they are as performant and reliable as the core engine. You are not afraid to dig into complex, "unsolvable" problems, working closely with developers and infra teams to ensure the database layer is a seamless part of the application stack (Mindset of Total Ownership).

Performance & Cost Optimization: Be an expert at query tuning and instance right-sizing to drive efficiency and cloud cost-savings.

Security & Compliance: Implement encryption at rest/transit, row-level security, and PII masking, ensuring our environments consistently exceed SOC2, GDPR, and other global compliance standards.

Reliability & Disaster Recovery: Design and implement High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery strategies that actually work. Drive system stability and ensure zero data loss.

Observability: Be proficient with monitoring and proactively identify bottlenecks before they impact users. Integrate database observability into our global monitoring stack, treating the database as a first-class citizen in our infrastructure-as-code ecosystem (SRE Integration).

Migration Leadership: Have the steady hand required to lead complex data migrations and schema changes across diverse environments with minimal downtime.

Collaboration & Enablement: Partner with Application Architects during the design phase to ensure data models are scalable and cost-efficient from day one. Mentor developers and build tooling that helps the entire team write and deploy better code and schemas (Developer Enablement). Participate in collaborative designing, problem-solving, and knowledge sharing as an active member of our global engineering community (Team First).

Agile Execution: Operate and manage workflow through Jira, participating in continuous planning to ensure the data roadmap directly drives and supports broader business goals.

Data-Driven Outcomes: Drive and measure results, working with leadership to define and hit key performance and reliability metrics.

AI-Driven Work: Utilize a cutting-edge toolkit including AI coding assistants and automated tuning agents to eliminate toil.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 3-10 years of experience as a Database Administrator in high-performance production environments.

Deep technical expertise in MSSQL (including SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS), PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, including experience managing databases in GCP and AWS.

Proven Tuning Track Record: Demonstrated ability to significantly improve query performance and reduce cloud infrastructure costs through optimization.

Extensive experience implementing and testing failover clusters, replication, and backup/recovery strategies (Expertise in HA/DR).

Scripting & Automation: Expert ability to bridge the gap between OS-level orchestration (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and engine-level logic (T-SQL, PL/pgSQL, MySQL Procedural, MQL) to build idempotent, version-controlled automation for management, deployments, migrations, and self-healing systems (Scripting & Automation).

Willingness to participate in on-call response with a passion for automating yourself out of a call.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Hands-on experience with observability platforms (e.g., New Relic, or native cloud tools) for Monitoring & Alerting.

Experience managing databases within audited environments (SOC2, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS) and implementing data privacy controls (Compliance & Security).