Senior Database Administrator

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Partner Company in the United States is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to provide senior-level database administration for production applications and cloud environments. You will manage MySQL and PostgreSQL databases across AWS services, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and scalability in collaboration with application teams and business stakeholders.

Your role combines hands-on engineering with lifecycle management, backup strategy, and security administration to support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 15+ years of professional database administration experience.
• Extensive experience with MySQL 5.7/8.0 and PostgreSQL 12–16.
• Significant experience with Amazon RDS or Aurora.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Administer MySQL and PostgreSQL databases in the AWS Cloud (RDS/Aurora).
• Install, configure, and optimize database instances and apply security patches.
• Manage database security, IAM authentication, and VPC security groups.
• Develop and maintain database objects and optimize vacuum and buffer settings.
• Monitor health and performance, identify bottlenecks, and perform tuning.
• Develop backup strategies to meet availability and recovery requirements.
• Support application development teams and stakeholders with database issues.
• Maintain DB lifecycle management per standards.

Skills

MySQL & PostgreSQL administration

AWS cloud databases

Database performance tuning

Security & backup strategies

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering/Math/Science

Tools

Amazon RDS

Aurora

Linux environments

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Database Administrator based in United States.

This role provides senior-level database administration for production applications and software development environments within a cloud-based infrastructure.

You will manage critical MySQL and PostgreSQL databases across AWS services, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and scalability.

The position combines hands-on database engineering with lifecycle management, performance optimization, backup strategy, and security administration.

You will work closely with application teams, solution delivery professionals, database administrators, and business stakeholders to support evolving technology needs.

Your expertise will help shape database architectures, capacity planning, authentication practices, and change management decisions.

This is an opportunity for an experienced database professional to contribute to enterprise-scale systems while solving complex technical challenges in a collaborative environment.

Accountabilities

• Administer MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines running within the AWS Cloud, including Amazon RDS and related managed services.
• Install, configure, maintain, and optimize database instances, including RDS Parameter Groups, Option Groups, engine upgrades, and security patches.
• Manage database security, authentication, permissions, and privileges in accordance with application and database requirements, including IAM database authentication and VPC security groups.
• Develop and maintain database objects such as tables, views, and indexes while optimizing PostgreSQL vacuum processes and MySQL buffer pool settings.
• Monitor database health and performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimization measures.
• Develop, maintain, and validate database backup strategies to support availability, recovery, and operational requirements.
• Provide technical support to application development teams, database owners, and other stakeholders for database and application-related issues.
• Maintain and execute Database Lifecycle Management processes according to customer specifications and established standards.
• Assess proposed application and database changes, providing impact analysis and identifying potential performance, capacity, or operational implications.
• Provide schedule, resource, and implementation requirements for proposed application and database changes.
• Develop database sizing recommendations based on expected user and data growth, server memory requirements, and projected performance characteristics.
• Participate in technical meetings with solution delivery teams and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other database administrators to optimize database environments, server clusters, replication, backup strategies, and database services.
• Support data management activities including data scrubbing, masking, comparison, and review.
• Contribute to improvements in database authentication robustness and overall security practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Science, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of relevant professional experience in database administration or a closely related field.
• Extensive enterprise-level experience administering MySQL 5.7/8.0 and/or PostgreSQL 12–16.
• Significant hands-on experience with Amazon RDS or Aurora managed database services.
• Deep understanding of Linux-based database environments and open-source database internals.
• Strong knowledge of Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) processes.
• Experience with data scrubbing, data masking, data comparison, and data review.
• Experience strengthening database user and system authentication mechanisms.
• Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning, security, backup strategies, replication, and capacity planning.
• Relevant professional or technical certification is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to evaluate technical impacts and recommend effective solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with technical teams, application owners, and stakeholders.
• Ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance.

Benefits

• Proposed salary range is not disclosed in the source job description; compensation is determined based on factors including role responsibilities, experience, location, education, training, and key skills.
• Opportunity to work with enterprise-scale database environments and cloud technologies.
• Hands-on exposure to AWS database services, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and modern database lifecycle practices.
• Collaborative environment involving database, application development, solution delivery, and stakeholder teams.
• Opportunities to contribute to database performance, security, scalability, and modernization initiatives.