Senior DBA & Data Platform Lead - Remote, AWS/AI-Driven

Foley; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Foley is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own our AWS-based data warehouse environments and MS SQL Server estates. You will lead HA/DR, backup, tuning, and security across platforms, collaborating with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with business needs.

Responsibilities include driving automation, scalable architectures, and AI-assisted tooling to reduce manual work, while maintaining compliance and cost efficiency on Redshift, RDS, EC2,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing production database environments.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DR.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift.
• Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams.
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency.
• Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools).
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own database reliability, performance, and availability.
• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies meeting SLAs.
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS.
• Own and optimize AWS-based data warehouse architecture for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Manage database security and access controls.
• Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, auditing.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Security to meet internal and external standards.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams.
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership.
• Drive operational excellence and automation.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring.
• Leverage AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve signals.
• AI FluentHelp drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our DBA operations and architecture.

Skills

Production database environments

Microsoft SQL Server

AWS data warehouse technologies

Database security

Cross-functional collaboration

AI fluency

AWS services exposure

Data engineering pipelines

Job description

Foley is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own our AWS-based data warehouse environments and MS SQL Server estates. You will lead HA/DR, backup, tuning, and security across platforms, collaborating with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with business needs.

Responsibilities include driving automation, scalable architectures, and AI-assisted tooling to reduce manual work, while maintaining compliance and cost efficiency on Redshift, RDS, EC2,