Database Engineer / Database Administrator

Tampa Bay Rays • St. Petersburg, FL

3d

About The Position

We have a set of important problems we need to solve. Some are immediate; some are transformative. Some require deep expertise, while others are opportunities for someone to learn and grow, and we're looking for people who want to help us solve them by owning the health, performance, and evolution of our enterprise data platform. This role will primarily support and optimize our Microsoft SQL Server environment while helping design and implement our future cloud data platform in Snowflake. The ideal candidate has strong SQL Server administration and database engineering experience, enjoys building reliable data infrastructure, and is excited to help modernize our data ecosystem. This individual will work closely with Data Engineering, Baseball Systems, Research & Development, and other departments to ensure our databases remain secure, scalable, high-performing, and capable of supporting critical business operations. This position is focused on database engineering, administration, and platform modernization. While occasional support for reporting or one-off SQL requests is expected, analytical, reporting, and statistical modeling responsibilities are minimal. You don't need to be an expert in everything below. Tell us what you can own today, what you can contribute to, and what you want to learn.

Requirements

• Strong SQL Server administration and database engineering experience
• Enjoys building reliable data infrastructure
• Excited to help modernize our data ecosystem
• Ability to work closely with Data Engineering, Baseball Systems, Research & Development, and other departments
• Experience with database engineering, administration, and platform modernization
• Experience with SQL Server Reliability & Performance
• Experience with Database Engineering
• Experience with Data Platform Operations
• Experience with Subject Matter Expertise
• Experience with Our Future Data Platform
• Experience with Modern Data Engineering
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, Dagster, or similar tools
• Experience with automating monitoring and recovery
• Experience with improving data orchestration and workflow management
• Experience with modernizing legacy processes

Nice To Haves

• You don't need to be an expert in everything below. Tell us what you can own today, what you can contribute to, and what you want to learn.
• Maybe you've spent years as a DBA and want to become a data platform engineer
• Maybe you're a strong data engineer who wants to learn production database administration
• Maybe you've worked with SQL Server but want to deepen your Snowflake expertise
• Maybe you've built Snowflake platforms but want to take ownership of a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Keep production databases healthy, secure, and highly available
• Improve performance and query execution
• Develop indexing and partitioning strategies
• Manage backups, restores, disaster recovery, and database growth
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and operational reliability
• Design scalable relational schemas and data models
• Build and optimize stored procedures, views, and functions
• Improve application/database interactions
• Keep critical data workflows running reliably
• Build automated processes for data imports and exports
• Troubleshoot failed jobs and integrations
• Create repeatable, auditable data-loading processes
• Own the dataset for a specific Baseball Operations department
• Help design our Snowflake architecture
• Develop a roadmap for moving from SQL Server to Snowflake
• Design data movement and migration strategies
• Establish standards for security, governance, and performance
• Help us operate a hybrid SQL Server/Snowflake environment during the transition
• Build ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, Dagster, or similar tools
• Automate monitoring and recovery
• Improve our data orchestration and workflow management
• Modernize legacy processes

Benefits

• All offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed