Senior Data Base Administrator
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to take ownership of performance, reliability, and evolution of mission-critical healthcare data platforms. This is not a traditional DBA role. You will operate at the intersection of customer environments and product engineering, spending approximately 60% working directly with healthcare customers and 40% partnering with R&D and engineering teams. You will work across SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments deployed in hybrid architectures (on-prem + cloud), ensuring healthcare providers have fast, reliable, and secure access to critical patient data. An AI-first mindset is required—you will be expected to leverage AI tools to automate operations, accelerate troubleshooting, and improve system intelligence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on DBA experience in production environments
- Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- Proven experience managing hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud)
- Experience in customer-facing or production support roles
- Deep knowledge of performance tuning, high availability/disaster recovery, and backup/recovery strategies
- Ability to operate effectively in 24/7, mission-critical environments
Nice To Haves
- Experience in healthcare IT environments
- Familiarity with DICOM, HL7, or FHIR
- Experience with clinical imaging systems (VNA, PACS)
- Experience with large-scale data systems (TB-scale and beyond)
- Exposure to cloud-native architectures and containerization/Kubernetes
- Experience with database migration and modernization initiatives
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers on database performance, architecture, and reliability
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in high-pressure healthcare environments
- Optimize systems supporting clinical imaging and patient data workflows
- Guide customers through best practices for hybrid database deployments
- Support upgrades, migrations, and environment stabilization efforts
- Partner with R&D to improve database architecture, scalability, and observability
- Contribute to modernization initiatives, including PostgreSQL adoption and cloud optimization
- Build automation for monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery workflows
- Influence product design by bringing real-world customer challenges into engineering decisions
- Proactively use AI tools to accelerate root cause analysis
- Automate repetitive operational tasks
- Improve system monitoring and predictive insights
- Continuously replace manual DBA workflows with intelligent automation
- Contribute to building an AI-driven operations model
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
