Senior Database Reliability Engineer

AutoTec LLC; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

AutoTec LLC is seeking a dedicated Senior Database Administrator to own health, performance, security, and recoverability of on-premises SQL Server and AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, plus an AWS data lake/analytics stack (S3, Glue, Athena, QuickSight). You will mentor the data team and drive upgrades, monitoring, and automation.

You will manage backups, HA/DR, security, and performance improvements across platforms, with runbooks and incident response responsibilities as a core duty.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on production DBA experience
• Deep production experience with SQL Server (2016+) HA/DR, backup/recovery, and tuning
• Production experience administering PostgreSQL including vacuum/bloat management
• AWS experience: RDS/Aurora, S3, Glue, Athena, CloudWatch
• Scripting proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Strong written communication and ability to document runbooks
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment

Responsibilities

• Own installation, configuration, patching, and upgrade planning for all on-premises SQL Server instances
• Administer SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery (Always On Availability Groups / FCI), including failover testing and DR runbooks
• Own AWS RDS Aurora Serverless v2 cluster configuration
• Design, implement, and routinely test backup and recovery on both platforms against documented RTO/RPO targets
• Tune performance on both platforms via wait statistics, execution plans, Query Store, and index/statistics strategy
• Monitor databases and manage alerting via Extended Events, DMVs, Performance Insights, CloudWatch
• Own the connection management strategy (RDS Proxy) for serverless scaling
• Plan and execute engine version upgrades with Blue/Green deployments for Aurora
• Administer database security – least-privilege, encryption, auditing, IAM, Secrets Manager
• Administer the S3 data lake - partitioning, lifecycle policies, formats like JSON/Parquet
• Manage AWS Glue crawlers and the Glue Data Catalog to keep data lake schemas current
• Support analysis/visualization in QuickSight – datasets from Athena and Postgres
• Govern Aurora costs and explain cost anomalies to leadership
• Create/runbooks for safe DBA operations by non-experts
• Automate recurring tasks with PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Assist development teams with schema review and data migrations
• Own incident response for outages and post-incident reviews
• Perform capacity planning for storage/memory/compute

Skills

Analytical mindset

Detail oriented

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

AWS (RDS, Aurora)

S3, Glue, Athena, QuickSight

CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Terraform

DMS, Babelfish

Job description

AutoTec LLC is seeking a dedicated Senior Database Administrator to own health, performance, security, and recoverability of on-premises SQL Server and AWS RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, plus an AWS data lake/analytics stack (S3, Glue, Athena, QuickSight). You will mentor the data team and drive upgrades, monitoring, and automation.

You will manage backups, HA/DR, security, and performance improvements across platforms, with runbooks and incident response responsibilities as a core duty.