Senior Cloud DBA - Remote (AWS/Redshift) with Clearance

Foley; Central City (NE); Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You will manage our AWS data warehouse environment and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to scale data systems securely as the business grows.

You will lead administration of SQL Server and Redshift, design HA/DR strategies, optimize for cost and performance, and drive automation and AI-assisted monitoring to reduce manual

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production database management experience.
• Expertise in MS SQL Server performance tuning, indexing, and high availability/ disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies (Amazon Redshift).
• Experience with database security, access controls, encryption, and auditing in regulated environments.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled automation and tooling to improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs.
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS and optimize architecture for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases.
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring using AI-assisted capabilities.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server expertise

AWS Redshift & data warehouse

Database security & access control

AI fluency & automation

AWS services tooling (RDS, EC2, S3,IAM

Data pipelines & analytics platforms

Tools

SQL Server tooling

AWS 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 manage our AWS data warehouse environment and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to scale data systems securely as the business grows.

You will lead administration of SQL Server and Redshift, design HA/DR strategies, optimize for cost and performance, and drive automation and AI-assisted monitoring to reduce manual