Remote Senior Cloud DBA: MySQL, RDS & DynamoDB

Upland Software; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Upland Software is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support production databases and lead a migration from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0. You will own database infrastructure design, ensuring performance, availability, and reliability while collaborating with Development and CloudOps to deliver resilient solutions.

The role emphasizes incident management, SLA adherence, backups, monitoring, and DR planning across global AWS environments. Strong communication and documentation are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of MySQL database administration in production.

Responsibilities

• Manage 19+ MySQL instances across 5 AWS regions (RDS/EC2).

Skills

MySQL expertise

AWS cloud experience

Windows Server administration

Automation

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Documentation & communication

Collaboration

Tools

MySQL (RDS)

DocumentDB

DynamoDB

CloudWatch/CloudTrail/SNS

EC2

Job description

Upland Software is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to support production databases and lead a migration from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0. You will own database infrastructure design, ensuring performance, availability, and reliability while collaborating with Development and CloudOps to deliver resilient solutions.

The role emphasizes incident management, SLA adherence, backups, monitoring, and DR planning across global AWS environments. Strong communication and documentation are essential.