Sr. Database Administrator

Horizontal Talent - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Atlanta, GA

About the position

The Sr. Database Administrator will play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of high-performance, scalable, and stable database solutions. This position involves collaboration with various teams to ensure effective data management and automation, particularly within AWS Cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, deployment squads, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios
• Lead on all data solution aspects, including setting data standards and providing deep technical expertise to development teams
• Design databases solutions that are highly available and meet disaster recovery requirements
• Design, develop, and maintain automated systems for AWS Cloud-based products and services
• Troubleshoot issues with automations and ensure efficient solutions
• Evaluate existing automation processes and identify areas of improvement
• Work with QA to create detailed test plans and needed tooling to account for targeted performance for production volume data
• Participate in code reviews and create documentation for engineering and cross-functional practices
• Learn new database technologies as necessary

Requirements

• Proven experience in data analysis and database management
• Proficiency in database automation in AWS with RDS
• Familiarity with Oracle/Postgres is preferable
• Ability to perform data purging and data replication activities
• Experience in database creation, decommissioning, and database updates/migrations
• Knowledge of database security and auditing features
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis for repeated incidents
• Experience in heterogeneous database interface deployment and support for various data interfaces with applications