Senior Database Administrator

Syngentagroup; Durham (NC); Híbrido; USD 120 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Full Benefits

401k with company match

Paid Vacation

Resumo da oferta

Syngenta seeks a Senior Database Administrator in Durham, NC to lead administration, optimization, security, and modernization of enterprise database platforms. You will guide cloud-hosted and on-premises environments, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with application, cloud, and infra teams, mentor junior DBAs, and shape multi-year roadmaps that meet governance and compliance requirements.

Qualificações

• Leads enterprise database architectures and modernization efforts.
• Experience with cloud-hosted and on-premises databases.
• Security, governance, and data protection expertise.

Responsabilidades

• Administer, optimize, secure, and monitor enterprise database platforms across AWS-hosted and enterprise environments.
• Define database strategy, governance, and roadmaps aligned to business needs.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents and resolve performance, replication, and availability issues.

Conhecimentos

Leadership mentoring

Cloud & DevOps

Performance tuning

Security & compliance

Database strategy

Ferramentas

AWS

Amazon RDS

Aurora PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Oracle

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator in Durham, NC. In this role, you will be responsible for the administration, optimization, security, modernization, and strategic direction of enterprise database platforms that support critical applications and business processes. This role provides technical leadership for cloud-hosted and enterprise database environments and is accountable for improving availability, performance, scalability, cost efficiency, data protection, and long-term platform sustainability.

Accountabilities:

• Administer, optimize, secure, and monitor enterprise database platforms across AWS-hosted and enterprise environments, including Amazon RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and related technologies.
• Define database strategy, standards, governance, service catalog expectations, ownership metadata, operational documentation, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business priorities, operational needs, and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents and resolve performance, replication, connectivity, availability, backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and reliability issues for mission-critical database services.
• Lead database modernization initiatives from assessment through execution, including migration to cloud-native and managed database services and improvement of long-term platform sustainability.
• Manage data sources, change data capture, replication, synchronization, transformation, data modeling, and normalization practices to support reliable data flow and trusted business outcomes.
• Maintain security controls, encryption standards, access controls, vulnerability remediation, audit support, automation, change management, and operational standards for database environments.
• Partner with application, cloud, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams while mentoring junior database administrators through coaching, standards, knowledge sharing, and practical database administration guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle, MongoDB, and other database technologies beyond the core AWS, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server platforms.
• Experience leading database migration and cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience working with AWS infrastructure and cloud-native services.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of database security, compliance, and governance best practices.
• Experience supporting scientific, research, manufacturing, commercial, or other data-intensive business environments.
• AWS or database-related professional certifications.

What We Offer

• A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports team members.
• Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs.
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day.
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution.
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits.

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI

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Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or any other employment practices