Remote Senior Cloud DBA: SQL Server & AWS Modernization

Fuze Health Inc.; Town of King (WI); Remote; USD 126,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental, vision, and group medical

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

FSA/HSA

Commuter benefits

STD and LTD

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Fuze Health seeks a Senior Database Administrator to lead the Hospice database modernization efforts, migrating SQL Server workloads to AWS RDS, upgrading legacy systems, and modernizing SSIS/SSRS pipelines. You will mentor the Hospice DBA team, implement robust backups, and ensure HITRUST/HIPAA compliance across enterprise databases.

The role emphasizes cloud-native monitoring, cost optimization, and collaboration with DevOps for infrastructure automation, while supporting ongoing development

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in database administration.
• Deep expertise with Microsoft SQL Server (2016+) performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server version upgrades and end-of-support migrations (e.g., off SQL Server 2016).
• Strong hands-on experience with SSIS (building, maintaining, and migrating ETL packages) and SSRS (report development and administration).
• Experience with AWS RDS (SQL Server) setup, migration, monitoring, Multi-AZ.
• Experience with AWS-native ETL and data migration tooling (AWS DMS, AWS Glue).
• Experience with database migration projects (on-premises or EC2 to RDS, and in-place EC2 version upgrades).
• Strong understanding of backup/restore strategies, point-in-time recovery, cross-region replication.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, SQL Server DMVs).
• Proficiency in T-SQL, stored procedures, and query optimization.
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2).

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of the SQL Server modernization on EC2: migration to AWS RDS (SQL Server) and/or in-place version upgrade off SQL Server 2016 ahead of end of support, including compatibility and upgrade testing.
• Assess, migrate, and maintain the existing SSIS ETL packages and SSRS reports — either re-platforming to AWS-native ETL and reporting services (e.g., AWS Glue, DMS) or retaining and upgrading them on SQL Server on EC2
• Drive database cost optimization: right-sizing instances, evaluating Reserved Instances, storage tiering, and eliminating unnecessary licensing costs
• Upskill and mentor the existing Hospice SQL DBA team on AWS database operations, RDS management, and cloud best practices
• Establish cloud-native database monitoring, alerting, and performance baselines using Datadog and CloudWatch
• Design and implement automated backup, restore, and disaster recovery processes using AWS Backup
• Perform query optimization, index management, and capacity planning
• Collaborate with the DevOps team on infrastructure automation (Terraform for RDS)
• Ensure HITRUST E1 compliance for all database systems (encryption, access controls, audit logging)
• Support the Hospice application team with database-related development needs
• Evaluate future database modernization opportunities (PostgreSQL, Aurora) for the 2027 roadmap

Skills

SQL Server

SSIS

SSRS

AWS RDS

ETL

Terraform

Datadog

CloudWatch

T-SQL

Performance Tuning

HIPAA

HITRUST

SOC2

Windows Server

AWS Certification

Tools

AWS DMS

AWS Glue

Terraform

SQL Server on EC2

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Fuze Health seeks a Senior Database Administrator to lead the Hospice database modernization efforts, migrating SQL Server workloads to AWS RDS, upgrading legacy systems, and modernizing SSIS/SSRS pipelines. You will mentor the Hospice DBA team, implement robust backups, and ensure HITRUST/HIPAA compliance across enterprise databases.

The role emphasizes cloud-native monitoring, cost optimization, and collaboration with DevOps for infrastructure automation, while supporting ongoing development