Senior Database Administrator

Ascension•Remote,

7h•$105,830 - $147,521•Remote

About The Position

Architect & Optimize Database Ecosystems: Design, standardize, and implement enterprise-grade database configurations, performance tuning, robust backup/recovery strategies, and proactive alert/monitoring frameworks across multi-platform environments. Lead High-Availability & Cross-System Integration: Engineer and govern scalable data and application architectures integrating multiple complex systems, leveraging MSSQL AlwaysOn, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard to ensure maximum uptime and minimal latency. Drive Design, Modeling, & Gap Analysis: Facilitate high-level technical design sessions and execute end-to-end ecosystem gap analyses with cross-functional teams and vendors, translating complex business needs into relational/dimensional data models. Harden Database Security & Governance: Establish and manage stringent database access governance frameworks and coordinate multi-team vulnerability remediation, providing deep technical guidance on feasibility and risk mitigation. Direct Multi-Platform Database Administration: Oversee the lifecycle and full-stack administration of diverse database technologies—including MSSQL (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB—while optimizing highly complex SQL queries.

Requirements

High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Advanced proficiency in networking topology and infrastructure design, including deep familiarity with TCP/IP protocols, DNS, and secure load balancing.
Proven track record of managing competing priorities across concurrent enterprise-scale migration or deployment projects within strict timelines.
Experience implementing automated scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python, or Bash) for database maintenance, orchestration, and continuous monitoring.

Responsibilities

Design, standardize, and implement enterprise-grade database configurations, performance tuning, robust backup/recovery strategies, and proactive alert/monitoring frameworks across multi-platform environments.
Engineer and govern scalable data and application architectures integrating multiple complex systems, leveraging MSSQL AlwaysOn, Oracle RAC, and Data Guard to ensure maximum uptime and minimal latency.
Facilitate high-level technical design sessions and execute end-to-end ecosystem gap analyses with cross-functional teams and vendors, translating complex business needs into relational/dimensional data models.
Establish and manage stringent database access governance frameworks and coordinate multi-team vulnerability remediation, providing deep technical guidance on feasibility and risk mitigation.
Oversee the lifecycle and full-stack administration of diverse database technologies—including MSSQL (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS), Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB—while optimizing highly complex SQL queries.