Database Administrator

ETHOS - Talent & Advisory; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ETHOS - Talent & Advisory is seeking a senior database administrator/engineer to own production database environments across development, testing, and production. You will tune queries, manage backups, security, and disaster recovery, and own environment sizing and access controls.

You will collaborate with Development, QA, Operations, and Data Engineering on deployments, schema changes, and reporting, building datasets and dashboards you and the business rely on for decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years administering production database environments (DBA, database engineering, or data operations).
• Advanced relational database skills — PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server — including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on ownership of backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Working knowledge of database security and access control: roles and permissions, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements.
• Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or equivalent.
• Experience building dashboards or reports in Power BI, Tableau, or a similar tool.
• Ability to explain a technical problem clearly to people who don't administer databases for a living.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize production database environments across development, testing, and production.
• Tune queries, indexes, sizing environments, and manage users/permissions, backups, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, Operations, and Data Engineering on deployments, schema changes, and performance work.
• Design logical data models, develop reusable datasets, and stand up dashboards/reports used across the business.

Skills

DBA experience

Query optimization

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Data visualization (Power BI/Tableau)

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Data Eng or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Power BI

Tableau

NoSQL

Job description

You'll be the person responsible for keeping our database platforms fast, available, and secure across development, testing, and production. That means real ownership: you'll tune the queries and indexes, size and configure the environments, manage users and permissions, run backup, replication, and disaster recovery, and step in when something is slow at 4pm on a release day and nobody knows why. You'll work with a high degree of independence — this is not a role where you wait to be assigned work.

The other half of the job is building on top of what you administer. You'll partner with Development, QA, Operations, and Data Engineering on deployments, schema changes, and application performance work, and you'll design logical data models, develop reusable datasets, and stand up dashboards and reports that people across the business actually use to make decisions. If you like the operational side of databases and the "what can we learn from this data" side, this role has both, on purpose.

Our stack is primarily relational — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server — with some NoSQL exposure, and we report out of Power BI/Tableau.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent hands-on experience
• 5+ years administering production database environments (DBA, database engineering, or data operations)
• Advanced relational database skills — PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server — including schema design, indexing strategy, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Hands-on ownership of backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery
• Working knowledge of database security and access control: roles and permissions, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements
• Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or equivalent
• Experience building dashboards or reports in Power BI, Tableau, or a similar tool
• Ability to explain a technical problem clearly to people who don't administer databases for a living

What makes you stand out

• Experience partnering directly with Dev, QA, and Data Engineering through deployments, schema changes, and incident response
• NoSQL exposure alongside your relational work
• A track record of automating away the operational toil rather than absorbing it
• Experience mentoring or onboarding other engineers