Remote Senior DBA - PostgreSQL/MySQL on AWS RDS

Eliassen Group; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Remote Senior DBA for a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program, supporting PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, with automation using Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation. Requires US citizenship or permanent residency with active Public Trust clearance.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, and life insurance. The role involves designing scalable database solutions, optimizing performance, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Experience creating 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.

Skills

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

Kafka

Kinesis

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

RDS Proxy

Java

PySpark

Ansible

ECS

EKS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RDS Proxy

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Remote Senior DBA for a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program, supporting PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, with automation using Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation. Requires US citizenship or permanent residency with active Public Trust clearance.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, and life insurance. The role involves designing scalable database solutions, optimizing performance, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure