Remote Senior DBA - AWS RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL) & Automation

Eliassen Group; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract role to support federal child support enforcement applications. The candidate will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and ensure robust disaster recovery and performance improvements.

U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust is required.

Qualifications

• Experience 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 and PostgreSQL/MySQL workloads on ECS/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.
• Coordinate with teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for database components.
• Design and deploy scalable PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS and suggest schema and data model improvements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain database scripts, stored procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views using Python, Shell, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations including upgrades, restores, schema changes, user management, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate database changes with management, developers, and users.
• Assess capacity and performance, right-size RDS instances, enable storage autoscaling, and forecast resources.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts and security controls.
• Maintain and test backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases.
• Perform root cause analysis and issue resolution; monitor health with CloudWatch Database Insights.

Skills

Public Trust clearance

AWS experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Amazon RDS

Python

Shell

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract role to support federal child support enforcement applications. The candidate will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and ensure robust disaster recovery and performance improvements.

U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust is required.