Senior DBA — Remote, AWS Redshift & AI-Driven Automation

Foley; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Wellness programs

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Foley is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to own and scale our data infrastructure in the United States. You will manage SQL Server and Amazon Redshift, design HA/DR, and optimize cloud data warehouse performance and costs.

You will collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases, while ensuring security, compliance, and leadership communication.

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.
• Experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated environments.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership.
• Demonstrated AI fluency with automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability.
• Experience with AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging).
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own database reliability, performance, and availability.
• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of SQL Server and Redshift environments.
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies meeting SLAs.
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS.
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work.

Skills

7+ years of experience

Production database environments

SQL Server performance tuning

HA/DR

AWS Redshift

Database security & access controls

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation & scripting

AI fluency / AI-enabled tooling

AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM)

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Redshift

AWS

RDS

S3

Job description

Foley is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer to own and scale our data infrastructure in the United States. You will manage SQL Server and Amazon Redshift, design HA/DR, and optimize cloud data warehouse performance and costs.

You will collaborate with Product, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases, while ensuring security, compliance, and leadership communication.