Senior DBA (Remote) - PostgreSQL & MySQL on AWS RDS

Eliassen Group; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract supporting a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. You will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, and drive performance improvements while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The role requires US citizenship or permanent residency with an active Public Trust clearance. W2 and corp-to-corp options are available, with medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, and life insurance

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 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 Java-based and AWS Glue/Apache Spark-based systems.
• Coordinate with teams to define system requirements, data flows, and testing support for database components.
• Design and deploy scalable PostgreSQL and MySQL solutions on Amazon RDS, and suggest schema and data model improvements.
• Create, deploy, and maintain database scripts, stored procedures, tables, triggers, and materialized views, using automation and scripting.
• Manage database operations including upgrades, restores, schema changes, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate and coordinate changes with management, developers, and users.
• Assess and improve capacity and performance, including right-sizing RDS instances and storage autoscaling.
• Maintain a central repository of data architecture artifacts and security controls.
• Maintain and test backup and recovery strategies for applications and databases.
• Monitor database health, transactions, and resource utilization using CloudWatch Database Insights.

Skills

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

MSK/Kafka

Kinesis

ElastiCache

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

RDS Proxy

Java

PySpark

Ansible

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

Lambda

Lake Formation

QuickSight

DynamoDB

Redshift

MSK

Kafka

Kinesis

OpenSearch

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

RDS Proxy

PostgreSQL

MySQL

pg_dump

pg_restore

Python

Shell

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior DBA for a remote contract supporting a Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement program. You will design and optimize PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS, automate deployments, and drive performance improvements while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

The role requires US citizenship or permanent residency with an active Public Trust clearance. W2 and corp-to-corp options are available, with medical, dental, vision, 401k matching, and life insurance