Senior Database Administrator – Cloud, HA/DR, Leadership

Old Dominion Freight Line; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 106,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Health Benefits

Vision & Dental

401k with company match

Job summary

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is seeking a senior Database Administrator to provide strategic and tactical direction for the database team.

You will oversee production and non-production environments to ensure reliability, performance, and scalable operations across the enterprise. The role emphasizes mentoring junior DBAs, implementing backup/recovery, high-availability, and security best practices, while supporting on-call rotations and collaboration with developers to optimize SQL code and

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in database administration, design, and development.
• 5 years of experience with tuning, performance, and scalability projects.
• 2 years of experience with cloud technologies.
• Advanced experience with database platforms (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Deep knowledge of performance tuning, execution plans, indexing, and wait event analysis.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, OCI, AWS, Azure).
• Strong expertise in backup/recovery tools and HA/DR technologies (e.g., RMAN, Data Guard, Clustering, Always On, Commvault).
• Knowledge of replication tools (e.g., GoldenGate, Qlik).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., OEM, Dynatrace, Spotlight).
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Written and verbal presentation skills to technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to junior DBAs to support new directions or solutions selected for the enterprise in a 24×7 environment
• Ensure database availability, reliability, and performance through proactive monitoring and tuning practices
• Responsible for implementing and supporting backup and recovery solutions and Disaster Recovery processes
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining high-availability solutions and be proficient in replication technologies
• Enforce security best practices (access control, encryption, auditing, patching)
• Troubleshoot complex incidents, including query performance issues, blocking, and deadlocks
• Lead the assessment and evaluation of tools supporting the databases
• Participate in the development of implementation plans and post implementation reviews
• Establish and maintain procedures for database administration, security standards and implement database best practices
• Support database deployments, schema changes, release and change management processes
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell)
• Research and perform database upgrades and patching
• Participate in on-call rotation

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Cloud technologies

High availability

Backup & recovery

Security best practices

Scripting

On-call support

Leadership mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

RMAN

Data Guard

Job description

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is seeking a senior Database Administrator to provide strategic and tactical direction for the database team.

You will oversee production and non-production environments to ensure reliability, performance, and scalable operations across the enterprise. The role emphasizes mentoring junior DBAs, implementing backup/recovery, high-availability, and security best practices, while supporting on-call rotations and collaboration with developers to optimize SQL code and