Database Administrator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in database administration, database operations, or a related IT role.
• Hands-on experience administering at least one major relational database platform, such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or MariaDB.
• Working knowledge of SQL, query analysis, indexing, execution plans, and database performance troubleshooting.
• Experience with database backups, recovery procedures, replication, and production database maintenance.
• Practical Linux server administration and command-line troubleshooting experience on CentOS, Ubuntu, or another related Linux distribution.
• Understanding of database security, user and permission management, encryption, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using monitoring tools to track database availability, performance, and resource utilization.
• Basic scripting experience with Bash, Python, PowerShell, PHP, or a similar language.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage assigned tasks independently, prioritize production issues, and collaborate effectively across technical teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing and supporting databases in on-premises and cloud environments, particularly AWS or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with database monitoring and alerting tools, such as Zabbix.
• Familiarity with Pervasive PSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB database administration and maintenance.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, Git-based version control, and database schema migration practices.
• Experience supporting data integration and analytics platforms, including Fivetran and Databricks.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
• Relevant certifications in database administration, cloud platforms, Linux system administration, or related technologies.
• Java.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch database software across on-premises and cloud environments while minimizing service interruptions.
• Monitor database health, analyze slow queries and execution plans, identify resource bottlenecks, and improve performance.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot replication to maintain data consistency and business continuity.
• Maintain scheduled backups, validate backup integrity, and perform periodic recovery tests.
• Investigate and resolve database incidents, connectivity issues, performance degradation, and replication failures.
• Monitor database growth, storage utilization, CPU, memory, and other resource metrics to identify capacity issues.
• Perform routine Linux server administration, including monitoring, patching, log analysis, disk management, and basic troubleshooting.
• Create and manage database accounts, roles, and permissions according to least-privilege principles.
• Apply database and operating system security best practices, maintain secure configurations, and address vulnerabilities.
• Perform database maintenance such as index optimization, statistics updates, log management, and storage cleanup.
• Develop and maintain Bash, Python, or similar scripts to automate repetitive administration and maintenance tasks.
• Configure and maintain monitoring for database availability, performance, replication, backups, storage capacity, and critical service health using tools such as Zabbix.
• Analyze monitoring data and recurring incidents to identify root causes and recommend preventive or corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and streamline database operations through automation.
• Support database deployment, migration, monitoring, and maintenance in cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP.
• Assist with cloud-native database services and database instances hosted on cloud virtual machines.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to troubleshoot connectivity, access, performance, and data availability issues involving Fivetran, Databricks, and related workflows.
• Work with application development and DevOps teams on schema changes, deployment activities, and version-controlled database updates.
• Implement and maintain encryption, authentication, access controls, and secure database configurations.
• Review database accounts and privileges periodically, remove unnecessary access, and investigate suspicious or unauthorized activity.
• Track database and operating system vulnerabilities and coordinate timely remediation.
• Follow change-management procedures for upgrades, configuration changes, maintenance, and production deployments.
• Prepare and validate implementation steps, rollback procedures, and recovery plans before production-impacting changes.
• Maintain database inventories, architecture diagrams, configuration records, standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and recovery procedures.
• Document recurring issues and resolutions to improve team knowledge and operational consistency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, development, and business teams to resolve database-related issues and support business requirements.
• Contribute to database migrations, platform upgrades, infrastructure improvements, monitoring initiatives, and other IT projects.
• Provide timely updates on incidents, maintenance activities, project progress, and identified risks.
• Participate in an on-call rotation every other week supporting onsite servers and provide ad-hoc support to the team as needed.

Benefits

• Annual bonus program.
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums fully covered for employees and 50% covered for dependents.
• Basic life and AD&D coverage, with the option for additional voluntary coverage.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with up to 4% match.
• EAP and Spring Health, including access to free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents.
• Free access for employees and their families to the Wellness Coach digital wellness platform.
• FTO (Flex Time Off) and a Week of Zen between Christmas and New Year’s.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
• Family-forming and fertility support and services through Maven.
• Annual Zenni gift card for company products.