Senior Database Administrator

Exiger; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Time Off

Health, vision, and dental benefits

16 weeks parental leave

Hybrid work model

Wellness stipends

Education reimbursements

Job summary

Exiger is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to design, build, and optimize cloud data platforms, ensuring secure, performant, and resilient operations. You will work within CI/CD pipelines, supporting new product features, data initiatives, and ongoing operational excellence.

You will lead cloud-native architecture, drive cost-aware improvements, and collaborate with engineering, data, and security teams to promote DevOps and IaC practices while mentoring engineers and DBAs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud database administration experience.
• Expertise in cloud-based design, cost and efficiency planning.
• Experience with HA, replication, backup, and DR in the cloud.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS with uptime/compliance.
• Background in data-intensive SaaS or regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve cloud-native data platforms for production and analytics.
• Migrate toward open storage-centric designs to reduce cost.
• Own performance optimization across data workloads.
• Lead modern data architecture beyond traditional databases.
• Design and own high availability, disaster recovery, multi-region strategies.
• Apply FinOps to analyze and optimize cloud data spend.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, infrastructure, security.
• Promote DevOps and platform best practices (IaC, automation, self-service).
• Define standards for scalable, reliable data storage and access.
• Ensure security, compliance, and governance across databases and lakehouse.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs on modern cloud data architecture.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Performance tuning

High availability

Security & compliance

DevOps / IaC

Tools

Snowflake

MySQL

SQL Server

Terraform

DataDog

Job description

Exiger transforms supply chains into a strategic advantage-advancing our mission to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed. Our AI platform, 1Exiger , delivers instant visibility into complex supplier ecosystems, leveraging proprietary data and advanced AI to surface risk, automate compliance, and unlock efficiencies and cost savings to strengthen long-term resilience . Trusted by 550+ global customers-including Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies-Exiger is a recognized, award-winning leader in supply chain AI and a FedRAMP authorized provider to the federal government.

Senior Database Administrator

Role Summary

Exiger is seeking a motivated, self-driven Senior Database Administrator who designs, builds and optimizes database, works within a continuous integration and delivery pipeline, and embraces test automation as a discipline. You will manage core transactional databases and cloud data platforms, ensuring they are secure, performant, resilient, and aligned with our data strategy. You'll work closely with engineering, data, and security teams to support new product features, data initiatives, and ongoing operational excellence.

What You'll Do

• Architect and evolve cloud-native data platforms for production and analytics (RDS, Snowflake, S3, Iceberg, Trino/Athena).
• Drive architectural changes to improve scalability and reduce cost, including migration to open, storage-centric designs.
• Own performance optimization across data workloads, partnering on query, schema, and data model improvements.
• Lead modern data architecture beyond traditional databases (data lakes, open table formats, decoupled compute).
• Design and own high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies, balancing resilience, performance, and cost.
• Apply FinOps best practices to analyze and optimize cloud data spend.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Promote DevOps and platform best practices (IaC, automation, self-service, lifecycle management).
• Define standards for scalable, reliable, and cost-transparent data storage and access.
• Ensure security, compliance, and governance across databases and lakehouse platforms.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs on modern, cost-aware cloud data architecture.

Technical Environment

• Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Managed and self-managed databases: Snowflake, MySQL, SQL Server
• Lakehouse environments: S3, Iceberg Tables, Trino
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling: DataDog, Kibana
• High-volume, highly regulated datasets

What You Need

• 8+ years of experience in database administration with increasing ownership of cloud architecture decisions
• Deep expertise in cloud-based database design, cost and efficiency planning, performance tuning, and scaling strategies
• Hands-on experience with high availability, replication, backup, and disaster recovery in the cloud
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and identity as it relates to data platforms
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with strict uptime and compliance requirements
• Prior experience in compliance, risk, financial services, or data-intensive SaaS environments preferred

Why You'll Love Working at Exiger

• High-performance culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.
• Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
• Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
• Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications

#LI-Hybrid

This is a full-time hybrid opportunity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.