Senior Database Administrator – HA/DR, Cloud & Automation

A & Associates; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A & Associates in Glendale, AZ is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with 6+ years of hands-on experience in installations, administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and troubleshooting.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in managing enterprise databases in production environments and ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal database performance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on DBA experience in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in installation, tuning, backup/recovery, security, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with HA/DR, replication, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in SQL scripting and automation languages (Shell/PowerShell/Python).

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain database servers and related tools.
• Monitor database performance and optimize queries, indexes, 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 application developers and infrastructure teams for database design and deployment.
• Perform capacity planning and storage management.
• Ensure database documentation, standards, and operational procedures are maintained.
• Participate in on-call support and production issue resolution.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

SQL scripting (Shell/PowerShell/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT or related field

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

AWS Database Specialty

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Replication and clustering

High Availability (HA) / DR

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Shell scripting

PowerShell

Python

Monitoring tools

Job description

A & Associates in Glendale, AZ is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with 6+ years of hands-on experience in installations, administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, security, and troubleshooting.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in managing enterprise databases in production environments and ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal database performance.