Senior Cloud DB Administrator - AWS, HA & DR Lead

Nelnet; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental plan

Vision plan

HSA/FSA

401K

Stock purchase program

Tuition reimbursement

Disability insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Nelnet Business Services (NBS) seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own and operate enterprise database platforms on AWS, including SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will lead availability, security, backup, and disaster recovery while guiding modernization and automation initiatives.

You will partner with architects and engineering teams to govern changes, manage the CDC pipeline, and ensure compliant data retention. On-call support may be required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of database administration and architecture.
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server 2019.
• 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 Liquibase for schema migrations.

Responsibilities

• Researches, designs, implements, and manages enterprise database systems based on business and application
• Leads complex database migrations, upgrades, and transformation initiatives.
• Designs and supports high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Monitors, analyzes, and improves database performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Ensures database security, compliance, backup, and recovery strategies are properly implemented and maintained.
• Recommends improvements to database architecture, standards, and operational processes.
• Owns the architecture, health, performance, and operational reliability of the enterprise Reporting Database.
• Manages the CDC pipeline's health, reliability, 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 participation in on-call support as required.
• Continues to update technical knowledge and stay current on emerging database technologies and AI-enabled operational tools.

Skills

Database architecture

Performance tuning

Security best practices

AWS RDS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Tools

Aurora PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Liquibase

AWS

Job description

Nelnet Business Services (NBS) seeks a Senior Database Administrator to own and operate enterprise database platforms on AWS, including SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will lead availability, security, backup, and disaster recovery while guiding modernization and automation initiatives.

You will partner with architects and engineering teams to govern changes, manage the CDC pipeline, and ensure compliant data retention. On-call support may be required.