Remote Database Administrator - MySQL/MariaDB to Aurora

Neumo Holdings LLC

Town of Texas (WI)

Remote

USD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Neumo is seeking a Database Administrator to own the day-to-day health of our MySQL/MariaDB databases and to contribute to the migration to Amazon Aurora. This build-and-run role covers migration work, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and security in a government-focused environment.

You will work with software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering teams in a remote-friendly setting, focusing on reliability, capacity planning, and incident response to keep mission-critical

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field; equivalent professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
Three to six years of hands‑on database administration experience in production environments.
Experience administering managed cloud database services such as AWS RDS, Azure SQL, or an equivalent platform.
Demonstrated experience executing backup, disaster recovery, and high‑availability procedures in practice, not solely documenting them.
Hands‑on experience with Amazon Aurora, either MySQL-compatible or PostgreSQL-compatible, including cluster configuration, read replicas, and Aurora‑specific performance characteristics.
Participation in a completed database migration, ideally from on‑premises or self‑managed infrastructure to a managed cloud service, including cutover planning and rollback execution.
Experience with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) or comparable replication and migration tooling.
Microsoft SQL Server administration experience; our reporting and audit‑compliance systems run on SQL Server and Azure.
Experience supporting PHP‑based application stacks, or working closely with engineers on one.
Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and with CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

Administer production and non-production MySQL and MariaDB environments, including backup and restore, replication, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and monitoring.
Contribute to the Amazon Aurora migration through assessment, schema and data migration, replication and cutover planning, validation, and rollback procedures; help establish operating practices for the target environment.
Profile slow queries, analyze execution plans, and design and maintain indexing strategies; partner with application engineers to resolve performance problems at the source rather than masking them.
Maintain and regularly test backup and recovery procedures; own recovery point and recovery time objectives and demonstrate that they are met.
Manage access controls, credentials, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit requirements for systems handling sensitive government and taxpayer data.
Replace manual database operations with scripted, repeatable, version-controlled processes.
Review schema changes and migrations prior to release; advise engineering teams on data modeling, query design, and the database implications of new features.
Participate in an on-call rotation for database-related incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive durable corrective action.
Exercise independent judgment in diagnosing and resolving production database issues, determining remediation approach, and escalating based on severity and customer impact.
Establish and document operational standards for the database estate and evaluate tooling and process changes that improve reliability or reduce manual effort.