Senior DBA – Remote PostgreSQL/MySQL on AWS RDS

Eliassen Group; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote, contract role serving federal program applications. You will design, optimize, and automate PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on Amazon RDS, manage upgrades and recovery, and drive performance improvements while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include deploying scalable database solutions, maintaining data architecture artifacts, and ensuring security and reliability. Requires U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience with 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 for PostgreSQL and MySQL workloads on ECS/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 systems, troubleshooting deadlocks and long-running transactions.
• Coordinate with teams to define system requirements and data flows.
• Design and deploy scalable PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, and suggest schema/data model improvements.
• Create and maintain database scripts, procedures, tables, triggers, and views using Python, Shell, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Manage database operations including upgrades, restores, schema changes, user management, failover, and disaster recovery.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Amazon RDS

Python

Shell

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

pg_dump/pg_restore

CloudWatch

OpenSearch

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote, contract role serving federal program applications. You will design, optimize, and automate PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on Amazon RDS, manage upgrades and recovery, and drive performance improvements while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities include deploying scalable database solutions, maintaining data architecture artifacts, and ensuring security and reliability. Requires U.S.