Senior DBA - Oracle & NoSQL Expert in AWS Cloud

Brightpath Associates LLC; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightpath Associates LLC seeks a senior Database Administrator to lead the management and optimization of Oracle and NoSQL databases across AWS. The role focuses on performance, availability, security, and complex issue resolution, including migrations from on-prem to cloud and data warehousing.

The ideal candidate will handle failover, backups, and RDS/Postgres deployments while collaborating with application teams to optimize interactions with NoSQL databases such as DocumentDB and MongoDB.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of relevant DBA experience.
• Expertise in Oracle and NoSQL databases (MongoDB).
• Experience with migrating on-premises databases to AWS.
• Proficiency with AWS services and data warehousing.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Database Management: Administer, maintain, and implement permissions, policies and procedures for ensuring the secure connectivity and integrity of databases.
• Performance Tuning: Monitor database performance, implement changes and apply new patches to ensure optimal performance with NoSQL.
• Failover and Recovery: Design and execute database backup and recovery strategies.
• Migration and Upgrade: Lead migration projects from on-premises databases to AWS and to NoSQL.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure database security measures and audit logging; comply with data privacy laws.
• Data Warehousing: Manage and optimize AWS Redshift and other data warehousing solutions.
• Monitoring: Use AWS CloudWatch and other tools to ensure health and automated scaling.
• Troubleshooting and Support: Resolve complex database issues.

Skills

Oracle

NoSQL

AWS

Performance tuning

Backups & recovery

Migration to AWS

Data warehousing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Oracle RDS

Postgres

DocumentDB

MongoDB

AWS CLI

CloudWatch

Redshift

Job description

Brightpath Associates LLC seeks a senior Database Administrator to lead the management and optimization of Oracle and NoSQL databases across AWS. The role focuses on performance, availability, security, and complex issue resolution, including migrations from on-prem to cloud and data warehousing.

The ideal candidate will handle failover, backups, and RDS/Postgres deployments while collaborating with application teams to optimize interactions with NoSQL databases such as DocumentDB and MongoDB.