Senior Database Administrator

Exiger • Jersey City, NJ

35d • Hybrid

About The Position

Exiger is the market leader in AI-native supply chain and third-party risk management, serving more than 60 federal agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises on a FedRAMP High authorized platform. We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the data foundation powering 1Exiger, our agentic AI platform, as well as our core transactional and analytical workloads. This is not a traditional DBA role. You will manage cloud databases and data platforms while helping build the AI-native data infrastructure required for vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, and agent memory. You will work across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and future IL5/IL6 air-gapped environments, partnering with platform, AI/ML, infrastructure, and security teams to support product innovation, Sovereign AI, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 8+ years of database administration experience with increasing ownership of cloud data architecture.
• Deep expertise in cloud database design, performance tuning, scaling, capacity planning, cost planning, backup, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, encryption, access control, and audit requirements for data platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working knowledge of, or strong interest in, AI data infrastructure such as vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and model telemetry.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, and security teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with FedRAMP, StateRAMP, IL4+, NIST 800-53, or federal compliance environments.
• Experience in compliance, risk, financial services, defense, or data-intensive SaaS environments.
• Experience with air-gapped or disconnected database environments.
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization at scale.
• Experience supporting ML or AI platforms in production.

Responsibilities

• Architect, operate, and optimize Exiger’s cloud data platforms across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and future IL5/IL6 environments.
• Own performance, scale, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies across transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Build and support AI-native data infrastructure for 1Exiger, including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, evaluation data, and agent memory.
• Ensure data security, encryption, access control, auditability, lineage, retention, and CUI handling meet FedRAMP High and federal customer requirements.
• Partner with security teams on POA&M remediation, vulnerability management, control evidence, and continuous monitoring.
• Drive cost optimization, modernization, and consolidation across legacy and cloud data estates using FinOps and open data architecture principles.
• Promote DevOps best practices, including infrastructure as code, automated schema migrations, CI/CD integration, and feature-flag-gated releases.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs on scalable, cost-aware, compliance-ready data architecture.

Benefits

• Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications

What This Job Offers

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