Senior Cloud Database Architect: AWS, HA & Security

Nelnet, Inc.; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

HSA/FSA

401K / Student loan repayment

Life Insurance & AD&D

EAP

ESPP

Tuition Reimbursement

Incentive Pay (performance)

Disability Insurance

Wellness Program

Job summary

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own and operate the NPS database platforms on AWS. You will design, secure, and continuously improve enterprise SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL ecosystems, with leadership in modernization and automation across the data stack.

You will partner with architects and engineers to mitigate database risks, own governance for access and changes, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration and architecture experience.
• Experience with Aurora Postgres and Microsoft SQL Server 2019 platforms.
• Hands-on experience managing databases in cloud environments.
• Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Exposure to data streaming or CDC concepts is a plus.
• Familiarity with database schema migration tools such as Liquibase is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Researches, designs, implements, and manages enterprise database systems.
• Leads complex database migrations, upgrades, and transformations.
• Designs and supports high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Monitors, analyzes, and improves database performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Ensures database security, backup, and recovery strategies are properly implemented.
• Recommends improvements to database architecture, standards, and processes.
• Owns architecture, health, performance, and reliability of the enterprise Reporting Database.
• Manages the CDC pipeline’s health and daily operations.
• Manages data truncation processes to meet retention requirements.
• Establishes database change governance across PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
• Defines and audits database access governance and least privilege.
• Reviews complex, high-risk, or performance-sensitive schema and query changes.
• Guides engineering teams on database solution design and best practices.
• Supports production systems, including on-call support as required.

Skills

Aurora Postgres

MS SQL Server

AWS RDS

Liquibase

CDC concepts

Cloud experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Systems or related field

Tools

Liquibase

Job description

Nelnet Business Services (NBS), a division of Nelnet, Inc., seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own and operate the NPS database platforms on AWS. You will design, secure, and continuously improve enterprise SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL ecosystems, with leadership in modernization and automation across the data stack.

You will partner with architects and engineers to mitigate database risks, own governance for access and changes, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for