Senior Data Platform Engineer (Remote • AWS/Redshift)

Foley; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Foley is seeking a senior database administrator/engineer to own and optimize our SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments in a primarily remote role based in the United States. You will design HA/DR strategies, manage security, and lead data warehouse operations within AWS to support reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with business needs, driving automation and reliability while ensuring

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 environments.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation 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 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.
• Own AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases.
• Manage database security and access controls.
• Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing.
• Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs.
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Drive operational excellence and automation.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring.
• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal.
• AI FluentHelp drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture.

Skills

SQL Server

Amazon Redshift

Security controls

Automation

AI fluency

AWS services

Performance tuning

Cross-functional

Tools

Amazon Redshift

AWS RDS

EC2

S3

IAM

Job description

Foley is seeking a senior database administrator/engineer to own and optimize our SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments in a primarily remote role based in the United States. You will design HA/DR strategies, manage security, and lead data warehouse operations within AWS to support reporting, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with business needs, driving automation and reliability while ensuring