Remote Senior Cloud DBA - Data Warehouse & Security

Foley; North Carolina; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness programs

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You will manage our AWS data warehouse environment (Redshift) and SQL Server, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams.

The role emphasizes automation, monitoring, and AI-enabled improvements to scale our data operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing production database environments.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning and HA/DR.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift.
• Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with automation or AI-enabled tooling to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies to meet SLAs.
• Own and optimize AWS-based data warehouse architecture for performance and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data/Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Communicate database risks and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Redshift

Database security

AI fluency

Tools

AWS RDS

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS IAM

Monitoring tools

Job description

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You will manage our AWS data warehouse environment (Redshift) and SQL Server, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency while collaborating with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams.

The role emphasizes automation, monitoring, and AI-enabled improvements to scale our data operations.