Senior Cloud DBA for AI-Native Data Platform

Exiger; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Discretionary time off

Health benefits

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Wellness stipend

Educational reimbursements

Job summary

Exiger is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the data foundation powering 1Exiger, our agentic AI platform, and core workloads. You will manage cloud databases and contribute to AI-native data infrastructure, including vector search and RAG pipelines.

The role spans AWS commercial and GovCloud, with future IL5/IL6 environments. You will collaborate with platform, AI/ML, infrastructure, and security teams to support Sovereign AI and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database administration experience with increasing ownership of cloud data architecture.
• Deep expertise in cloud database design, performance tuning, scaling, capacity planning, cost planning, backup, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, encryption, access control, and audit requirements for data platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working knowledge of, or strong interest in, AI data infrastructure such as vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and model telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Architect, operate, and optimize Exiger’s cloud data platforms across AWS commercial and GovCloud environments.
• Own performance, scale, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies across workloads.
• Build and support AI-native data infrastructure for 1Exiger, including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, evaluation data, and agent memory.
• Ensure data security, encryption, access control, auditability, lineage, retention, and CUI handling meet FedRAMP High and federal requirements.
• Partner with security teams on POA&M remediation, vulnerability management, control evidence, and continuous monitoring.
• Drive cost optimization, modernization, and consolidation across legacy and cloud data estates using FinOps and open data principles.
• Promote DevOps practices: infra as code, automated migrations, CI/CD, and feature-flag releases.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs on scalable, compliant data architecture.

Skills

Cloud databases

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Security & encryption

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Snowflake

Job description

Exiger is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the data foundation powering 1Exiger, our agentic AI platform, and core workloads. You will manage cloud databases and contribute to AI-native data infrastructure, including vector search and RAG pipelines.

The role spans AWS commercial and GovCloud, with future IL5/IL6 environments. You will collaborate with platform, AI/ML, infrastructure, and security teams to support Sovereign AI and operational excellence.