Remote Senior Cloud DBA — AWS Redshift & SQL Server, AI-Driven Reliability

Foley; Clayton (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud data platforms. You’ll manage our AWS data warehouse environment (Redshift) and partner with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics to scale data systems securely and reliably.

This role requires 7+ years of production database experience, deep SQL Server and AWS Redshift expertise, and a proactive automation mindset.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production database experience.
• Deep expertise in SQL Server, AWS Redshift, and HA/DR.
• Experience with database security, access controls, and auditing.
• Automation mindset with scripting or AI-enabled tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead admin, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift.
• Design HA, backup, and disaster recovery strategies meeting SLAs.
• Own AWS-based data warehouse architecture for performance and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data/Analytics to support reporting and AI use cases.
• Manage security, access, encryption, and auditing across platforms.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to align DB solutions with business needs.
• Improve reliability via automation and proactive monitoring using AI tooling.

Skills

SQL Server

AWS Redshift

Security & IAM

Automation & Scripting

AI tooling

Tools

RDS

EC2

S3

Monitoring

Job description

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud data platforms. You’ll manage our AWS data warehouse environment (Redshift) and partner with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics to scale data systems securely and reliably.

This role requires 7+ years of production database experience, deep SQL Server and AWS Redshift expertise, and a proactive automation mindset.