Senior Cloud DB Admin — AWS/SQL Server — Remote

Foley; Lake Michigan Beach (MI); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness programs

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You will support our AWS data warehouse environment, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to ensure scalable, secure data systems as the business grows.

Own database reliability, performance, and availability. You will lead administration, monitoring, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift, design HA/DR strategies, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years managing production database environments.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, incl. performance tuning, indexing, HA/DR.
• Hands-on AWS data warehouse experience, incl. Amazon Redshift.
• Experience with database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated environments.
• AI fluency with automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability.
• Experience with AWS services: RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging.
• Familiarity with data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift.
• Design and maintain HA, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Own AWS-based data warehouse architecture for performance and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting and AI use cases.
• Communicate risks and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams.

Skills

SQL Server

Redshift

AWS

Automation scripting

AI tooling

Security controls

Tools

RDS

EC2

S3

IAM

Monitoring tools

Job description

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You will support our AWS data warehouse environment, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to ensure scalable, secure data systems as the business grows.

Own database reliability, performance, and availability. You will lead administration, monitoring, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift, design HA/DR strategies, and