People Technology And Processes Llc

Senior Database Administrator

The Database Administrator role will be responsible for design, configuration, troubleshooting, administration, and support of Redwood Material's corporate and manufacturing databases. This individual will play a crucial role in maintaining performance, availability, and integrity of scalable database solutions for operations across the company. This role will work collaboratively with technical experts, managers, and cross-functional teams to define future database growth and performance needs for a rapidly growing enterprise.

Responsibilities will include:

• Administer and maintain existing MariaDB and PostgreSQL relational database systems, including self-hosted and AWS RDS based deployments.
• Work in tandem with infrastructure teams to improve the resiliency and scalability of database systems.
• Design, implement and administer new database solutions.
• Ensure data security and integrity through the implementation of access controls and backup/recovery plans.
• Handle performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience.
• Strong knowledge of either MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL (and at least good familiarity with the other – you will be administering both).
• Familiarity with clustered database deployments.
• Strong knowledge of data & schema standards, database design, SQL, data management, and incremental backup & restoration best practices.
• Must be comfortable with self-hosted and cloud-managed databases (AWS RDS experience strongly preferred).
• Comfortable with Linux/Unix.
• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!