Senior Database Administrator - Cloud & Automation

ModivCare Solutions, LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 117,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Parental leave

Job summary

Modivcare is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator IV to safeguard and optimize enterprise databases across IBM Db2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in a hybrid cloud environment.

You will partner with developers, data engineers, and security teams to design highly available, secure data platforms, automate provisioning, and support cloud adoption and data-driven initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience administering enterprise database environments.
• Professional database certifications preferred (e.g., IBM Db2, MongoDB, AWS Certified Database – Specialty, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Experience administering enterprise database platforms including IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and other relational and NoSQL technologies.
• Strong SQL programming and expertise in database architecture, design, indexing, partitioning, query optimization, execution plans, and performance tuning.
• Experience with backup/recovery, replication, clustering, HA, disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain enterprise database platforms.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable database environments to support applications and analytics.
• Monitor performance and optimize queries, indexing, partitioning, and configurations.
• Implement backup, recovery, DR, replication, and high-availability solutions.
• Enforce database security controls including RBAC, encryption, auditing, DDM, and PHI protection.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and performance through proactive monitoring and capacity planning.
• Manage lifecycle activities including retention, archival, restoration, purge, and storage optimization.
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to optimize workloads and support releases.
• Administer AWS services (RDS, Aurora, Redshift) including provisioning, security, and performance tuning.
• Support migration, modernization, cloud adoption, integration, and consolidation across on‑prem and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive automation for provisioning and operations.
• Maintain documentation, standards, procedures, and best practices.

Skills

IBM Db2

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

RBAC

Encryption

PHI

PowerShell

Python

Bash

DevOps

IaC

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Modivcare is seeking a seasoned Database Administrator IV to safeguard and optimize enterprise databases across IBM Db2, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in a hybrid cloud environment.

You will partner with developers, data engineers, and security teams to design highly available, secure data platforms, automate provisioning, and support cloud adoption and data-driven initiatives.