Database Administrator

Insight Global; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Database Administrator to own the day-to-day health of production MySQL/MariaDB databases and to contribute to the migration to Amazon Aurora. The role blends migration work—assessment, schema and data movement, cutover rehearsal—with strong emphasis on backups, performance, capacity, and security.

You will be one of a small number of database specialists collaborating with software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering to improve platform stability and

Qualifications

• Hands-on 3-6 years in production DB administration.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora (MySQL- or PostgreSQL-compatible).
• Strong MySQL/MariaDB config, replication, backup and recovery knowledge.
• Ability to read execution plans and tune queries.

Responsibilities

• Own database operations for production and non-prod MySQL/MariaDB environments including backups, replication, patching, upgrades and capacity planning.
• Support the Amazon Aurora migration with assessment, schema/data migration, replication, cutover planning and rollback procedures.
• Tune performance by profiling slow queries, analyzing plans, and improving indexing.
• Maintain and test backup/recovery procedures and meet recovery objectives.
• Enforce security and compliance for systems handling sensitive data and manage access controls.
• Automate routine operations with scripted, version-controlled processes.
• Collaborate with engineering on schema changes, migrations, and data modeling implications.
• Respond to incidents; participate in on-call and lead root-cause analysis.

Skills

MySQL/MariaDB

Amazon Aurora

Replication

Backup and recovery

Query tuning

Indexing

Python

Bash

SQL

AWS DMS

SQL Server

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Data modeling

Security controls

Tools

AWS RDS

Azure SQL

DMS

Terraform

CloudFormation

SQL Server

Job description

Job Description

Our Revenue Compliance platforms process tax, business license, and property tax data for government agencies across the country. The databases behind those platforms are the system of record — when they are slow, unavailable, or wrong, our customers cannot collect revenue.

We are hiring a Database Administrator to own the day-to-day health of those databases and to play a hands-on role in our upcoming migration to Amazon Aurora. This is a build-and-run role: you will spend part of your time on migration work — assessment, schema and data movement, cutover rehearsal — and part of it on the operational fundamentals of backups, performance, capacity, and security.

You will be one of a small number of database specialists in the organization, working alongside software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering. There is real ownership here and a direct line from your work to platform stability.

What You’ll Do

• Own database operations. Administer production and non-production MySQL/MariaDB environments — backups and restores, replication, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and monitoring.
• Support the Aurora migration. Contribute to assessment, schema and data migration, replication and cutover planning, validation, and rollback procedures. Help establish operating practices for the target environment.
• Tune for performance. Profile slow queries, analyze execution plans, design and maintain indexing strategies, and partner with application engineers to resolve performance problems at the source rather than masking them.
• Protect the data. Maintain and regularly test backup and recovery procedures. Own recovery objectives and be able to prove they are met.
• Enforce security and compliance. Manage access controls, credentials, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit requirements for systems handling sensitive government and taxpayer data.
• Automate routine work. Replace manual database operations with scripted, repeatable, version-controlled processes.
• Partner with engineering. Review schema changes and migrations before they ship. Advise on data modeling, query design, and the database implications of new features.
• Respond to incidents. Participate in on-call rotation for database-related incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive durable fixes.

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Skills and Requirements

• 3-6 years of hands-on database administration experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora (MySQL-or PostgreSQL-compatible), including cluster configuration, read replicas, and Aurora-specific performance characteristics.
• Strong working knowledge of MySQL or MariaDB — configuration, replication, backup and recovery, and upgrades.
• Demonstrated query and index tuning ability; comfortable reading execution plans and diagnosing performance problems independently.
• PHP code -
• Solid SQL skills and a working understanding of relational data modeling.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or equivalent).
• Scripting ability for automation (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts, and experience actually exercising them — not just documenting them.
• Clear written communication and the judgment to elevate appropriately during incidents.
• Participation in a real database migration — ideally on-premises or self-managed to a managed cloud service — including cutover planning and rollback.
• Experience with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) or comparable replication and migration tooling.
• Microsoft SQL Server administration; our reporting and audit-compliance systems run on SQL Server and Azure.
• Working knowledge of AWS cost and capacity management for database workloads.
• Exposure to PHP-based application stacks, or comfort working closely with engineers on one.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD familiarity.