Senior DBA - Remote AWS RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Eliassen Group; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Our client, Eliassen Group, is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract role supporting federal programs. The candidate will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and manage upgrades, DR, and high-availability while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The position requires strong AWS skills, experience with Glue/Athena, Java/PySpark support, and security clearance parity (Public Trust).

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements to propose DB solutions for online and batch Java-based and AWS Glue/Spark workloads.
• Coordinate with teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for DB components.
• Design and deploy scalable PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS and optimize schemas.
• Create and maintain database scripts, procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views using Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations including upgrades (blue/green), restores, schema changes, user management, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate and coordinate DB changes with management, developers, and users.
• Assess and improve capacity and performance with RDS tuning, storage autoscaling, and forecasting.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts and security controls.
• Maintain backup/recovery strategies for apps and databases.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for DB issues.
• Monitor DB health and resources using CloudWatch Database Insights.

Skills

AWS Glue

Athena

Python

Shell

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon ECS

Amazon EKS

RDS Proxy

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Our client, Eliassen Group, is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract role supporting federal programs. The candidate will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments with Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and manage upgrades, DR, and high-availability while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The position requires strong AWS skills, experience with Glue/Athena, Java/PySpark support, and security clearance parity (Public Trust).