OpenNova is partnering with a client who is a worldwide leader in emergency preparedness and critical incident management, creating innovative solutions for government agencies, corporations, providers and higher education. They are in search of a Database Administrator with broad experience across multiple database technologies and cloud technologies to support their most mission critical systems. In this role, you will be working with the Global Systems Operations Team (Infrastructure team) and be responsible for all database environments.
What you will be responsible for
- Build extensible, reliable, and resilient database systems
- Deploying databases, managing performance, recovery and creating database instances
- Support and optimize our database cloud infrastructure, including joining client conference calls to support client databases
- Actively work on assigned tasks or new functionality setup projects including architecture design preparation, implementation, and documentation tasks
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in databases hosted in development, lab, and production environments
- Timely and effectively solve incidents and work on RCA cases
- Building cloud database platform components and new application integration with our monitoring system
- Collaborate with other DBA team members (international team) to keep following approved standards
- 24/7/365 on-call emergency availability and after hours scheduled maintenance windows
Skills and experience that will make you successful in this role
- Must have a Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Database Administrator
- Proven experience working directly with PostgreSQL and MSSQL and understanding of their low-level operating concepts
- Strong database design and architectural skills, including the understanding of effective database design
- Knowledge of database tuning and performance enhancement concepts
- Must have hands on experience working within AWS Cloud environments. Experience with Azure would be a plus (both environments are used but AWS is the larger of the two)
- Experience working with Linux
- Source control tools such as Git. Gitlab pipeline experience a plus
- Enjoy working in a team-oriented collaborative environment
- Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence tracking solutions is a plus
- Passion to provide outstanding service to both internal and external clients
- Must be willing to work flex hours from time to time. This role will also require on-call rotation work.
Setting yourself apart from the competition
- Self-motivated and directed, with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment. Execute on projects independently
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple concurrent tasks
- Experience with IaC, ideally experience working with Terraform
This is a full-time, direct hire opportunity. This is a fully remote role that does require East Coast working hours.
The base salary range for this role is $105,000 to $120,000 per year. Individual pay rates are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Our client is unable to sponsor or transfer sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
OpenNova is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We post pay scales which are based on our client pay ranges. OpenNova and our clients have the right to modify the requirements of the role which can impact the pay ranges posted.