About the Role
This candidate works with team on daily activities involving the design, management, maintenance, and utilization of databases. Provide leadership and drive strategy, standards, and processes for applicable database environments.
Responsibilities
Ensure the maintenance, stability, and operational health of all databases and related technologies.
Mitigate customer-impacting issues and support product and infrastructure releases according to development plans and schedules.
Provide strategic direction for hosted database architectures and assess the impact of hosted product requirements.
Lead research into new or alternative technologies and recommend upgrades or changes to database infrastructure.
Review, implement, and sign off on enhancements, upgrades, and changes to systems, procedures, and back-office infrastructure environments.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Database Administrators on complex database design, infrastructure, and maintenance topics.
Engage with Technical Architects and senior Development team members to provide technical designs and guidance to the Database Operations team.
Take responsibility for the implications and impact of technical design decisions.
Resolve performance issues and support root cause resolution.
Perform thorough impact analysis for assigned database infrastructure activities and understand their effect on business operations.
Respond to issues and support calls in accordance with relevant procedures, including security requirements.
Install, upgrade, test, and monitor new database infrastructure and equipment.
Monitor database operations and support maintenance activities efficiently to minimize issues and incidents.
Ensure clear and timely communication with the line manager and relevant stakeholders regarding progress, issues, and risks.
Perform all other duties as assigned.
Leadership and People Management
Assign personnel to projects and direct their activities to meet business and technology objectives.
Review and evaluate work, prepare performance reports, and support employee development.
Project long-range requirements for database administration in collaboration with technology and business leaders.
Carry out management responsibilities in accordance with organizational policies, procedures, and applicable laws, including interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, and resolving complaints or concerns.
Ensure staff have the training, resources, feedback, and coaching needed to consistently meet or exceed individual and team performance goals.
Encourage new ideas from staff to foster continuous improvement and innovation.
Empower staff to be accountable and responsible for their actions and decisions.
Qualifications
7+ years of database administration experience.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience required.
Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or managing technical teams.
Technical Skills
Strong understanding of database infrastructure, administration, maintenance, design, and related technologies.
Proven ability to troubleshoot database connectivity, infrastructure, and performance issues across multiple operating environments.
Ability to perform root cause analysis and impact analysis for database-related issues.
Experience installing, upgrading, testing, and monitoring database infrastructure and equipment.
Ability to research, evaluate, and recommend new or alternative database technologies.
Strong problem-solving, organizational, project planning, time management, change management, and delegation skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present concise and effective information to senior leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams.
Strong interpersonal, mentoring, customer service, and presentation skills.
Ability to set, communicate, implement, and achieve business objectives through the direct management of others.
Additional Skills
Database Technologies
7+ years of MySQL DBA or Database Engineering experience.
Strong experience with MySQL replication design, implementation, and support.
Experience with High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures.
Extensive experience with backup and recovery technologies including Percona XtraBackup and snapshot-based recovery solutions.
Experience performing MySQL patching, upgrades, and major version migrations.
Strong query optimization, performance tuning, and capacity management experience.
Database security administration and governance experience.
Additional Database Technologies (Preferred)
Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle
Modern Engineering Competencies
Cloud-native architecture principles
Platform engineering and self-service automation.
AI-assisted operations and engineering productivity tools.
Automated testing and deployment strategies.
Continuous improvement mindset and operational excellence focus.
Cloud Engineering
Strong experience supporting cloud-hosted database services in Azure and/or AWS
Experience with: Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server, Azure Managed Database Services, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora
Knowledge of multi-zone and multi-region deployment strategies
DevOps & Platform Engineering
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Terragrunt
CI/CD pipeline implementation using GitHub Actions
Git-centric development workflows
Automation experience using: Python, Bash/Shell Scripting, Ansible
Observability & Reliability Engineering
Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms including
Grafana/Datadog/ELK
Azure Monitor
CloudWatch
Understanding of SRE concepts including
Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Error Budgets
Incident Management
Root Cause Analysis
Blameless Post-mortems
RESPONSIBILITIES
Database Reliability Engineering
Own and improve the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of production database services.
Design and support highly available, multi-region database architectures.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
Define and support operational reliability standards and best practices.
Database Administration & Operations
Support database management systems and all related software platforms.
Design, build, and maintain database environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
Provide technical support and database administration for mission-critical systems.
Perform database upgrades, maintenance, patching, and lifecycle management.
Conduct performance tuning, query optimization, and capacity planning activities.
Automation & Cloud Enablement
Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions.
Develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
Support CI/CD integration and database deployment modernization.
Partner with software engineering teams to improve database reliability and deployment processes.
Drive cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
Observability & Incident Response
Implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
Participate in on-call support and incident response activities.
Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
Continuously improve operational readiness and platform resilience.


U.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 - $192,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Base Pay Range for CO is $115,400 - $192,300. Base Pay Range for IL is $121,200 - $201,900. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $126,900 - $211,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $121,200 - $201,900. Base Pay Range for NY is $126,900 - $211,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $138,400 - $230,700. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $115,400 - $192,300. Base Pay Range for OH is $109,500 - $182,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $136,213- $217,587.


This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.





Application deadline is 12/24/2026.

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