Senior DBA (Remote) — AWS RDS & PostgreSQL/MySQL

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Remote Senior DBA opportunity with Eliassen Group supporting a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. Design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and drive performance improvements.

Requires US citizenship or permanent residency with active Public Trust clearance. Role emphasizes on solving complex database problems, implementing blue/green upgrades, and ensuring disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and administering AWS Glue databases and Athena tables.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Lake Formation, QuickSight, DynamoDB, Redshift, MSK/Kafka, Kinesis, ElastiCache and OpenSearch.
• Experience with containerization such as Docker or Kubernetes, including PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, or via RDS Proxy.
• Experience supporting Java and PySpark applications.
• Experience developing and executing Ansible scripts.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements to propose database solutions for online and batch Java-based and AWS Glue/Apache Spark-based systems, including troubleshooting deadlocks and long-running transactions.
• Coordinate with business and technology teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for database components.
• Design and deploy scalable, high-performance PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS, and recommend schema and data model improvements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain database scripts, stored procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views, using automation and scripting with Python, Shell, Ansible, and AWS CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations with minimal oversight including configuration, upgrades including blue/green, restores with pg_dump/pg_restore, schema changes, user/password management, failover, disaster recovery, and replication.
• Communicate and coordinate database changes and operations with management, developers, and users.
• Assess and improve capacity and performance, including capacity planning, right-sizing RDS instances, storage autoscaling, and resource forecasting.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts including data dictionaries, procedures, scripts, and security controls.
• Maintain and test backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases.
• Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Monitor database health, transactions, and resource utilization using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights.

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

MSK/Kafka

Kinesis

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

RDS Proxy

PostgreSQL

MySQL

pg_dump/pg_restore

Python

Shell

Ansible

Job description

Remote Senior DBA opportunity with Eliassen Group supporting a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. Design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, coordinate with cross-functional teams, and drive performance improvements.

Requires US citizenship or permanent residency with active Public Trust clearance. Role emphasizes on solving complex database problems, implementing blue/green upgrades, and ensuring disaster recovery.