Robert Half

About the Role:

We are hiring a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to manage and maintain our mission-critical databases. You will be responsible for ensuring database performance, availability, security, and integrity. As a Senior DBA, you’ll work closely with development, infrastructure, and analytics teams to design and implement database solutions that support our growing business.

Work Authorization: - U.S Citizen

Key Responsibilities:

· Install, configure, and maintain production, test, and development relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)

· Monitor database performance and proactively tune for speed and efficiency

· Manage backup and recovery strategies, ensuring data integrity and availability

· Implement and enforce security best practices, access controls, and encryption

· Design and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexing strategies

· Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, and patch management

· Collaborate with DevOps and development teams on CI/CD integration for database changes

· Troubleshoot and resolve database-related incidents, including performance bottlenecks and failures

· Document database standards, processes, architecture diagrams, and configurations

· Assist in database capacity planning and future growth forecasting

· Support high availability (HA), failover clustering, and disaster recovery (DR) implementations

· Ensure compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA)

· Provide mentorship to junior DBAs and guide best practices

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· 7+ years of experience in database administration and management

· Strong expertise in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle (must have experience in at least one of these in depth)

· Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, or Redis

· Solid knowledge of performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing

· Proficient in SQL scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python)

· Familiarity with cloud database services (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL)

· Experience with HA/DR solutions, clustering, replication, and backup tools

· Strong understanding of database security, roles, permissions, and encryption

· Experience with database monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, New Relic, Prometheus, etc.)

· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

· Excellent communication and documentation skills

· Comfortable working independently in a remote setup

Preferred Qualifications

· Cloud certifications like:

o AWS Certified Database – Specialty

o Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

· Experience with big data or analytics platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Snowflake, BigQuery)

· Knowledge of DevOps, containerized DBs, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)

· Familiarity with Data Warehousing and ETL pipelines

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

· Equivalent practical experience may be considered in place of formal education

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,231.17 - $132,751.52 per year

Work Location: Remote