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The Sr Database Administrator (DBA) role requires a strong technical background in SQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and AWS cloud technologies. The role involves managing and optimizing database environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical applications in hybrid cloud environments. The candidate should have experience building and maintaining complex systems, understanding business use cases, and providing technical expertise on replication, archival strategies, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, managing, and maintaining high-availability systems and cloud database services (AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
• Managing clustering technologies for fault-tolerant solutions, with deep knowledge of RDBMS, NoSQL, and operating systems (Linux, Windows, AWS EC2).
• Supporting database operations including backups, disaster recovery, and failover.
• Designing and managing database environments in AWS, utilizing services like RDS, EC2, and S3.
• Understanding cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and services such as S3, Lambda, or Glue, as well as AWS networking.
• Applying data modeling, warehousing, and schema design principles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud databases and high-availability solutions (Always On, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch).
• Knowledge of scripting languages and automation tools is a plus.
• Overseeing data warehouses' development, maintenance, and optimization.
• Performing schema management, data modeling, and query performance tuning.
• Designing and implementing data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, and delivery.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or 12 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.

Work Experience:

• 9+ years of related IT experience.

Preferred Certifications: Certifications in cloud hyperscale and RDBMS fields are a plus.

Platform Operations and Support:

• Providing operational support to ensure system uptime and SLA adherence.
• Monitoring system performance, logs, and metrics to proactively resolve issues.
• Collaborating with DevOps and cloud engineering teams for infrastructure maintenance and patching.

Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Collaboration and Documentation:

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver insights.
• Documenting processes, pipelines, and configurations for knowledge sharing.
• Maintaining documentation for database configurations and procedures.
• Ensuring compliance with security and data governance standards.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Information Technology

• Insurance