Database Reliability & Performance Engineer

Peregrine Advisors; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator in Washington to keep core database services available, secure, and scalable. You will manage backups, failover testing, patches, and access controls, ensuring reproducible recovery and evidence-driven changes.

You will collaborate with developers, security, and cloud teams to tune performance, automate repetitive tasks, and maintain monitoring dashboards. The role emphasizes disciplined change control and well-documented runbooks.

Qualifications

• Production administration experience with one or more relational database engines or managed database services.
• Hands-on knowledge of monitoring, performance diagnosis, capacity management, backups, restores, replication, and high availability.
• Experience planning patches, major-version upgrades, maintenance windows, rollback paths, and disaster-recovery tests.
• Understanding of database access control, privileged operations, encryption, audit needs, and security hardening.
• Scripting or automation skills for repeatable maintenance, evidence collection, health checks, and operational response.

Responsibilities

• Establish recovery procedures, testing restores and failover.
• Monitor workload health, investigate contention and resource pressure.
• Coordinate patches, and administer privileged access.
• Make careful production changes, communicate risk and service impact clearly.
• Plan version upgrades and disaster-recovery tests.

Skills

Relational databases

Monitoring

Automation scripting

Backups and DR

Security hardening

Job description

Peregrine Advisors is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator in Washington to keep core database services available, secure, and scalable. You will manage backups, failover testing, patches, and access controls, ensuring reproducible recovery and evidence-driven changes.

You will collaborate with developers, security, and cloud teams to tune performance, automate repetitive tasks, and maintain monitoring dashboards. The role emphasizes disciplined change control and well-documented runbooks.