Senior Cloud DBA — Remote (EST) with AI-Driven Ops

Foley; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) plan

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, primarily AWS data warehouse environments. You will collaborate across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to scale data systems securely.

This mostly remote role operates in EST hours with occasional visits to our offices for collaboration, training, or events.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing production database environments.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DR.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift.
• Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency.
• Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools).
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own database reliability, performance, and availability.
• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies meeting SLAs.
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS.
• Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Manage database security and access controls and permissions across platforms.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability.
• Work with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align solutions with business needs.
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to stakeholders including leadership.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring.
• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work.
• AI Fluent
• Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture.

Skills

Database admin

Performance tuning

AI fluency

Automation & scripting

Cloud AWS

Security mindset

Stakeholder comms

Monitoring & alerts

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Redshift

RDS

EC2

S3

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Foley is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms, primarily AWS data warehouse environments. You will collaborate across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to scale data systems securely.

This mostly remote role operates in EST hours with occasional visits to our offices for collaboration, training, or events.