Remote Senior DBA - AWS RDS & PostgreSQL/MySQL

Eliassen Group; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA to support database operations for online and batch applications in a federal program. This remote contract role focuses on designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automating deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and driving performance improvements.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS services, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and experience supporting Java and PySpark workloads, with US

Qualifications

• Experience creating and administering AWS Glue databases and Athena tables.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Lake Formation, QuickSight, DynamoDB, Redshift, MSK/Kafka, Kinesis, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.
• Experience with containerization such as Docker or Kubernetes, including PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, or via RDS Proxy.
• Experience supporting Java and PySpark applications.
• Experience developing and executing Ansible scripts.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements to propose database solutions for online and batch Java-based and AWS Glue/Apache Spark-based systems, including troubleshooting deadlocks, long-running transactions, and connection pool or isolation level issues.
• Coordinate with business and technology teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for database components.
• Design and deploy scalable, high-performance PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS, and recommend schema and data model improvements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain database scripts, stored procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views, using automation and scripting with Python, Shell, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations with minimal oversight including configuration, upgrades including blue/green, restores with pg_dump and pg_restore, schema changes, user and password management, failover, disaster recovery, and replication.
• Communicate and coordinate database changes and operations with management, developers, and users.
• Assess and improve capacity and performance, including capacity planning, right-sizing RDS instances, storage autoscaling, and resource forecasting.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts including data dictionaries, procedures, scripts, and security controls.
• Maintain and test backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases.
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Monitor database health, transactions, and resource utilization using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights.

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

MSK/Kafka

Kinesis

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

RDS Proxy

Java

PySpark

Ansible

pg_dump/pg_restore

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA to support database operations for online and batch applications in a federal program. This remote contract role focuses on designing and optimizing PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automating deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and driving performance improvements.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS services, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and experience supporting Java and PySpark workloads, with US