Database Administrator — Aurora Migration & High-Availability

Neumo; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Neumo seeks a Database Administrator to own the day‑to‑day health of our MySQL/MariaDB ecosystems and to drive the migration to Amazon Aurora. The role involves build-and-run tasks, schema and data movement, and ongoing backup, recovery, security, and performance work.

You will join a small team of database specialists collaborating with software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering to ensure platform stability and rapid recovery from incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 3–6 years hands-on database administration in production environments.
• Experience with managed cloud services (AWS RDS, Azure SQL) and migration tools.
• Proven disaster recovery and high availability procedures in practice.
• Hands-on Aurora (MySQL or PostgreSQL) experience with cluster config and replicas.
• Experience with DMS or similar replication tools and migrations.
• SQL Server administration experience as used in reporting/audit systems.
• Experience supporting PHP-based stacks or collaborating with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Administer production/non-production MySQL/MariaDB; manage backup/restore and capacity.
• Contribute to Aurora migration including schema/data movement and cutover planning.
• Profile slow queries, design indexing strategies, and optimize performance.
• Own backup/recovery objectives and verify RPO/RTO targets are met.
• Manage access controls, encryption, and audit requirements for sensitive data.
• Automate operations with scripted, version-controlled processes.
• Review schema changes; advise on data modeling and query design.
• Participate in on-call rotation; lead root-cause analyses and actions.
• Diagnose production issues with independent judgment and escalation as needed.
• Document operational standards and evaluate tooling to improve reliability.

Skills

MySQL/MariaDB

Query tuning

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Disaster recovery

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS RDS

Azure SQL

Amazon Aurora / DMS

Terraform

CloudFormation

SQL Server

Job description

Neumo seeks a Database Administrator to own the day‑to‑day health of our MySQL/MariaDB ecosystems and to drive the migration to Amazon Aurora. The role involves build-and-run tasks, schema and data movement, and ongoing backup, recovery, security, and performance work.

You will join a small team of database specialists collaborating with software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering to ensure platform stability and rapid recovery from incidents.