Senior Database Administrator – Cloud, Security & DR

University of California-Berkeley; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

UC Benefits

Job summary

University of California, Berkeley seeks an experienced Database Administrator to manage enterprise and open-source DB platforms, ensuring schema design, architectural integrity, patching, backups, recovery, and monitoring. The role emphasizes high availability, security, and cost-aware cloud/hybrid infrastructure management.

Ideal candidates will lead complex tuning, index/statistics optimization, and collaboration with developers and data engineers, while supporting 24/7 on-call operations and

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in DBA roles, enterprise-scale experience.

Responsibilities

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery design and implementation.
• Performance tuning and optimization at instance/OS level.
• Security, governance and compliance management (encryption, IAM, auditing).
• Cloud migration and hybrid infrastructure management.
• Automation and DevOps integration (IaC, CI/CD with Flyway/Liquibase).
• Strategic architecture and lifecycle management of database assets.
• Leadership, mentorship, and 24/7 on-call participation.

Skills

SQL

Scripting

System troubleshooting

Security & compliance

Cloud & DevOps awareness

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related area

Professional cloud certifications (Preferred)

Tools

MSSQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

University of California, Berkeley seeks an experienced Database Administrator to manage enterprise and open-source DB platforms, ensuring schema design, architectural integrity, patching, backups, recovery, and monitoring. The role emphasizes high availability, security, and cost-aware cloud/hybrid infrastructure management.

Ideal candidates will lead complex tuning, index/statistics optimization, and collaboration with developers and data engineers, while supporting 24/7 on-call operations and