Database Administrator

Full-time - Mid Level

Detroit, MI

About the position

As a Database Administrator, you’ll ensure the databases that support our technology systems are designed and performing as needed and providing the necessary data to the appropriate team members. You will work with developers and business analysts to create and modify our database structure, monitor the performance of database servers, and perform database maintenance tasks, including backups/restores, updating statistics, and rebuilding indexes. You will collaborate with data engineers to map data in production databases to our data warehouse, maintain system security and data integrity, and work with systems engineers to ensure optimal hardware and storage subsystems. Additionally, you will develop, manage, and maintain a strong disaster recovery and high availability plan, install, upgrade, and patch database servers, and participate in code and design reviews as well as production code pushes.

Responsibilities

• Work with developers and business analysts to create and modify database structure.
• Monitor the performance of database servers.
• Perform database maintenance tasks, including backups/restores, updating statistics, and rebuilding indexes.
• Collaborate with data engineers to map data in production databases to our data warehouse.
• Maintain system security and data integrity.
• Work with systems engineers to ensure optimal hardware and storage subsystems.
• Develop, manage, and maintain a strong disaster recovery and high availability plan.
• Install, upgrade, and patch database servers.
• Participate in code and design reviews.
• Participate in production code pushes.

Requirements

• Experience with MS SQL and increasing use of PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with on-premises environments, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience with on-premises bare metal and VMs.
• Mid-level to senior-level candidates preferred.
• Open to in-person office work but also considering remote options.
• On-call duties will be shared among the team.

Nice-to-haves

• NoSQL experience.
• Terraform and Kubernetes (K8) experience.
• Interest in the ins and outs of being a DBA.

Benefits

• Health and well-being support for team members and their families.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Array of other amazing benefits.