Database Administrator III

· Required Qualifications:

o BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in data operations or database administration, or MS with 3+ years of experience.

o Demonstrated experience as a database administrator with SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, security and access management, and capacity planning.

o Advanced SQL/T-SQL proficiency, with working knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python or PowerShell) for database automation.

o Ability to design and implement monitoring solutions for database health, performance, and capacity.

o Experience with, or strong working knowledge of, migrating databases to cloud-based environments (e.g., Microsoft Azure).

o Awareness of the monetary costs associated with operational work.

o Demonstrated experience mentoring or coaching less experienced engineers.

· Preferred Qualifications:

o Experience with advanced replication topologies (e.g., multi-region, active-active) for SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL.

o Experience administrating, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and performing backup/recovery of database systems (e.g.

SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL or similar systems).

o Familiarity with, or willingness to grow into, modern cloud data platforms, including Databricks and Snowflake.

with CI/CD automation.

o Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) for building, orchestrating, and maintaining reliable data ingestion and loading pipelines.

o Experience participating in structured post-mortems and root cause analysis for significant incidents.

o Familiarity with data governance practices (quality checks, lineage documentation, access control).

o Strong systems thinking; understands how failure in one system cascades to others across a portfolio.

o Sound judgment balancing database performance, availability, security, and cost trade-offs.

o Excellent written communication; operational health reports are usable by data consumers and leadership without interpretation.

o Sound judgment distinguishing proximate causes from systemic causes when writing postmortems.

o Mentoring and coaching skills; able to develop the operational judgment of less experienced engineers.

o Ability to lead complex incident response and drive systemic reliability improvement independently.

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