Sr. Database Administrator

HHAeXchange

1d•$125,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

The Sr. Database Administrator (DBA) will administer HHAeXchange’s enterprise-wide database environments within its SaaS-based ecosystem. The role focuses on supporting high-availability systems, executing disaster recovery strategies, and managing data replication and retention for critical business operations. This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the US Eastern or Central time zones. Travel of up to 10%, including overnight travel, is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, together with applicable experience.
At least 6 years of database administration experience, including at least 4 years in an enterprise SaaS environment.
Expertise with cloud data platforms such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, or OCI, and relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server in cloud and on-premises environments.
Experience with NoSQL solutions such as Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
Advanced automation and scripting skills using Python, Bash, Terraform, or Ansible for infrastructure as code and task automation.
Proven experience with large-scale data migration and zero-downtime upgrades.
Ability to lead a war room during critical outages and collaborate with operations staff and executive stakeholders.
Ability to collaborate with distributed or offshore operations teams in a follow-the-sun support model.
Ability to analyze license and hosting agreements from performance and cost perspectives.
Strong analytical thinking, complex problem-solving skills, and ability to communicate technical strategies to non-technical stakeholders.
Willingness to explore and responsibly adopt AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation.

Responsibilities

Maintain complex replication models, including multi-region and real-time replication, and high-availability solutions such as clustering or multi-AZ deployments.
Design, implement, and maintain the primary SQL Server infrastructure to maximize uptime and reliability.
Support, monitor, and maintain auxiliary database platforms, including Oracle Exadata@AWS, AWS Aurora MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Ensure data consistency across distributed SaaS environments and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.
Design and implement end-to-end disaster recovery strategies that meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
Participate in regular disaster recovery exercises, automated failover testing, and demonstrations of no-outage resiliency.
Establish and enforce automated data retention, archiving, and purging policies aligned with industry compliance requirements, including healthcare requirements.
Implement and support security measures, including transparent data encryption (TDE), role-based security, and unified auditing.
Lead performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity management for high-volume transactional SaaS workloads.
Monitor and analyze advanced performance metrics to identify and resolve resource contention.
Advise on database modernization roadmaps, including transitioning legacy systems to cloud-native or containerized architectures.
Develop standards for database schema design, storage structures, and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
Establish standard operating procedures for database operations, covering routine maintenance, patching, and ticket escalation paths.
Build and promote an Operations-as-Code model, mentoring the team in Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline use to automate repetitive tasks.
Perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.