Senior Database Administrator

Brief Description

This position requires a service-oriented mentality, a high sense of ownership, and a focus on reliability, performance, and security across all database environments.

You will manage, optimize, and secure large-scale distributed database systems across multiple AWS regions, ensuring uptime and efficiency in alignment with SLAs.

The role involves designing and maintaining cloud-native database infrastructure, performing complex troubleshooting, implementing automation, and driving performance and cost optimization across a global footprint.

Opportunity Summary:

This is a Senior Database Administrator position largely responsible for providing operational database services to us in a production role. The immediate responsibility of this role is to assist the current Cloud Operations team with the migration of MySQL 5.6 to 8.0.43, as well as owning database infrastructure design, ensuring optimal performance, availability and reliability. You will also be working with Development to come up with strategic solutions to recurring problems Additional daily tasks such as owning, tracking and resolving database related incidents and requests, fulfilling requests and resolving incidents within SLAs, reviewing service related reports (e.g.: database backups, maintenance, monitoring) to ensure service related issues are identified and resolved within established SLAs, and responding to database related alerts and escalations.

Primary Responsibilities:

This position requires a service oriented mentality, high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established time frames. As a Sr. Database Administrator, you will be responsible for all aspects of application database platforms including infrastructure, database design, data flow and overall performance.

Required Personal Traits

· Ability to apply creative problem solving and manage through ambiguity.

· Willingness to take ownership of problems and seek solutions to meet customer needs

· Highly collaborative team player.

· Ability to work under remote supervision and with a minimum of direct oversight.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills directed to technical and non-technical team members.

• An individual who is keen to keep on top of emerging technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Manage 19+ MySQL instances across 5 AWS regions, currently split between RDS and EC2 instances.