Senior Database Administrator - HA/DR & Cloud

A & Associates; Arizona; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A & Associates is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with 6+ years of hands-on experience in database installation, administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate will manage enterprise databases in production environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal performance.

Responsibilities include installing and maintaining database servers, tuning performance, implementing DR/HA solutions, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in database installation, administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing enterprise databases in production environments with high availability and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database servers and related tools.
• Monitor database performance and optimize queries, indexes, and configurations.
• Perform database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Manage database security, user roles, permissions, and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot database issues, outages, and performance bottlenecks.
• Implement database maintenance plans and automation scripts.
• Support high availability and replication solutions.
• Collaborate with developers and infrastructure teams for design and deployment.
• Perform capacity planning and storage management.
• Ensure documentation and SOPs are up to date.
• Participate in on-call production issue resolution.

Skills

Database installation

Database administration

Performance tuning

Backup and recovery

Security and auditing

Troubleshooting

Automation scripting

HA/DR planning

Capacity planning

Documentation

On-call support

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

AWS Database Specialty

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Shell

PowerShell

Python

Job description

A & Associates is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with 6+ years of hands-on experience in database installation, administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and troubleshooting. The ideal candidate will manage enterprise databases in production environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal performance.

Responsibilities include installing and maintaining database servers, tuning performance, implementing DR/HA solutions, and