Database Administrator III

Covenant Eyes - Owosso, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Owosso, MI

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Database Administrator III at Covenant Eyes is responsible for planning, coordinating, and participating in the design, development, implementation, and ongoing support of enterprise databases. This role involves providing architectural vision for new database setups, analyzing and solving problems within existing technologies, and managing both internal and customer-facing solutions. The DBA will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the effective operation and security of databases while contributing to a culture focused on restoring relationships and making a positive impact.

Responsibilities

• Configuring, maintaining, monitoring, optimizing, and supporting high availability and geographically dispersed databases.
• Installing and testing database software upgrades.
• Developing, documenting, and communicating standards for use, operations, and security of databases and data.
• Analyzing business requirements to identify and implement database and replication solutions.
• Participating in a monthly on-call rotation.
• Performing Business Analytics and Data Mining.
• Troubleshooting and correcting database issues.
• Participating in systems implementation projects.
• Working alongside and being highly responsive and communicative with cross-functional teams, including Developers, Systems Engineers, User Experience Practitioners, and Quality Assurance Practitioners.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with MariaDB, Percona, or MySQL.
• Experience with MySQL stored procedures & functions, triggers, views.
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex ETL pipelines using tools such as Informatica, SSIS, Talend, Apache NiFi, etc.
• Query design and performance tuning.
• Data modeling and design.
• Experience with Oracle Linux (RHEL 7 or newer [and variants]).
• Shell scripting.

Nice-to-haves

• Galera, MariaDB (MaxScale), Master-Master Configuration.
• Redis.
• InfluxDB (Time series).
• Python, JSON, Percona toolkit.
• Ansible (DevOps automation).
• AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, Containerization.
• ETL (Extract, Transform, & Load).
• Partitioning & Sharding.
• Data security.
• Sizing and capacity planning.
• Database backup and disaster recovery.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package starting on day one.
• Work-life balance opportunities.
• Advancement opportunities.