Remote Senior DBA: SaaS Reliability & DR Expert

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Paid time off

Company paid holidays

401K with company match

Job summary

HHAeXchange is seeking a Sr Database Administrator to manage enterprise SaaS databases across cloud and on-prem environments. This fully remote role supports US-based candidates in EST/CST time zones, focusing on high-availability designs and DR readiness.

You will lead performance tuning, automation, and data-security initiatives while shaping modern database roadmaps and CI/CD deployments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in database administration, 4+ years in enterprise SaaS.
• Cloud data platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, OCI) and relational DBs (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Automation/scripting: Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible.
• Large-scale data migration and zero-downtime upgrades.
• No-SQL solutions (Redis, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra).

Responsibilities

• Maintain complex replication models and high-availability solutions (multi-region, multi-AZ).
• Design and maintain SQL Server infrastructure to maximize uptime and reliability.
• Support Oracle Exadata@AWS, AWS Aurora MySQL, and PostgreSQL across cloud and on-prem.
• Implement DR strategies with defined RPO and RTO; participate in DR drills.
• Promote automated data retention, archiving, and purging per healthcare requirements.
• Lead performance tuning and capacity management for high-volume SaaS workloads.
• Develop standards for database schema design and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Establish Operations-as-Code with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling.

Job description

HHAeXchange is seeking a Sr Database Administrator to manage enterprise SaaS databases across cloud and on-prem environments. This fully remote role supports US-based candidates in EST/CST time zones, focusing on high-availability designs and DR readiness.

You will lead performance tuning, automation, and data-security initiatives while shaping modern database roadmaps and CI/CD deployments.