Senior DBA & Data Warehouse Architect (AWS & AI)

Foley; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Foley is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and security of our SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments. You will lead AWS-based data warehouse operations, design HA/DR strategies, and collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

The role is primarily remote (US-based) with EST hours and occasional office visits.

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 Amazon Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs.
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS.
• Own AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases.
• Manage database security and access controls.
• Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing.
• Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements.
• Proactively 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 clearly to leadership.
• Drive operational excellence and automation.
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring.
• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal.
• AI FluentHelp drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Redshift

AWS

Data warehousing

Database security

Automation tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Tools

SQL Server Management Studio

AWS Console

Redshift Console

Job description

Foley is seeking a senior Database Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and security of our SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments. You will lead AWS-based data warehouse operations, design HA/DR strategies, and collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to enable reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

The role is primarily remote (US-based) with EST hours and occasional office visits.