Cloud-First Principal DBA: AWS Migrations & Data Strategy

Cox Enterprises; Village of North Hills (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Enterprises seeks a Principal Database Administrator to lead across Dealer Solutions, guiding cloud migration from on-prem to AWS, stabilizing existing infrastructure, and shaping data architecture.

The role requires deep expertise in relational databases and cloud-native platforms, strong leadership, and collaboration with engineers to ensure availability and security for enterprise systems. You will mentor DBAs and drive critical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years in database administration or related roles.
• Expertise in designing high-performance, fault-tolerant databases.
• 8+ years with AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and DynamoDB.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production systems with strict SLAs.
• Strong HA/DR technologies knowledge (clustering, replication, backup/restore).
• Logical/physical database design, data modeling, performance management.
• Expert-level leadership for SQL Server environments across architecture, modernization, migrations, and DR.
• 8 years in performance tuning, indexing, query optimization.
• Ability to design solutions spanning relational DBs and microservices architectures.
• Collaboration with engineers on data architecture decisions.
• Observability tools to monitor DB health and drive decisions.
• 8+ years building and maturing CI/CD for database changes.
• Mentor DBAs and lead strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define database strategy and drive cloud modernization efforts.
• Stabilize and remediate on-premises database infrastructure.
• Design and execute phased migration to AWS.
• Advise architects and software engineers on data architecture decisions.
• Ensure high availability and security of enterprise platforms.
• Lead complex migration, resiliency, and performance initiatives.
• Provide leadership for SQL Server environments across architecture and upgrades.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams.
• Mentor DBAs and review complex technical designs.

Skills

Database design

AWS RDS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Oracle

High availability

Disaster recovery

Data modeling

SQL Server

Cloud migration

Leadership

CI/CD for databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related

Master's degree in related field

Ph.D. in related field

14+ years of directly related experience

Tools

GoldenGate

Always On

SQL Server

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cox Enterprises seeks a Principal Database Administrator to lead across Dealer Solutions, guiding cloud migration from on-prem to AWS, stabilizing existing infrastructure, and shaping data architecture.

The role requires deep expertise in relational databases and cloud-native platforms, strong leadership, and collaboration with engineers to ensure availability and security for enterprise systems. You will mentor DBAs and drive critical initiatives in a fast-paced environment.