Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Database Administrators through coaching, performance management, career development, and cross training.
- Establish team objectives, operational priorities, and service-level expectations.
- Manage staffing, workload distribution, on-call support, and resource planning.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, automation, and continuous improvement.
Database Operations
- Oversee the administration, maintenance, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management of enterprise database platforms.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and recovery capabilities are implemented, documented, tested, and regularly validated.
- Establish and maintain database performance monitoring and capacity planning processes.
- Serve as the escalation point for critical database incidents and production outages.
- Cost optimization through core optimization, workload consolidation, and deployment configuration improvements.
Architecture & Engineering
- Drive database architecture standards and best practices across the organization.
- Lead modernization and cloud adoption initiatives involving database platforms and services. Lead database migrations, data integrity and performance validation, documentation, and post-migration operational readiness.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Promote automation of operational tasks through scripting, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure database environments meet corporate security standards, audit requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Establish governance processes for database administration, change management, backup retention, and access management.
- Monitor database risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Business Partnership
- Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, and Enterprise Architecture teams on application deployments, upgrades, and strategic initiatives.
- Participate in project planning, budgeting, vendor management, and technology roadmap discussions.
- Communicate operational health, risks, and strategic recommendations to IT leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of database administration experience supporting enterprise database platforms.
- 3+ years of leadership or management experience.
- Strong expertise administering Microsoft SQL Server in highly available enterprise environments.
- Experience with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and disaster recovery planning.
- Experience with Amazon RDS and/or optimizing SQL on EC2
- Experience managing mission-critical production environments with 24x7 availability requirements.
- Experience with automation and scripting technologies including PowerShell and T-SQL.
- Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and other managed database services.
- Strong understanding of database security, access controls, auditing, and operational governance.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting cloud database platforms in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience leading database platform modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
- Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Database - Specialty, or equivalent certifications.
- Experience supporting highly regulated, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, financial services, or similar environments.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other non-Microsoft database platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and DevOps practices.
Schedule:
- Full time
- Monday-Friday, 9AM to 6PM
- Hybrid work model - 2 days/week in office
We Offer:
- Competitive benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short/Long-Term Disability, 401K, and more!
- Paid Time Off and Paid Company Holidays
- Growth-oriented work environment
- Training opportunities
- Casual dress policy
- Free Food and Beverage Program
- Many more perks!