Manager IT DBA

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!