Database Administrator (DBA)
Remote, United StatesFull-TimeMid-levelOther
Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) in production and development environments
- Perform routine DB operations such as backup and recovery, schema changes, patching, upgrades, and security hardening
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and recovery for database-related issues
- Automation, configuration management, modernization
- Monitoring and analysis
- Work collaboratively with systems and infrastructure teams to understand storage, OS, and networking components that influence database performance and reliability
- Leverage basic Linux command-line and systems knowledge to troubleshoot and improve DB processes
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle (PostgreSQL strongly preferred)
- Solid grasp of daily DBA operational tasks, including backups, replication, security, user management, and logging
- At minimum, basic experience with performance tuning; medium level strongly preferred
- Basic knowledge of Linux systems, including filesystem layout, memory/disk utilization, and OS-level tools
- Experience with configuration management (Ansible) and other automation/deployment tools
- Experience with both On-Prem and Cloud configuration
- Experience with database specific Monitoring
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes) for running database workloads
- Familiarity with Ceph RBD as a backend for database storage or similar distributed storage systems
- Understanding of modern big data formats or engines like Hadoop, Parquet, RocksDB
- Linux networking fundamentals (troubleshooting connections, ports, interfaces)
- Experience with cloud-based DB offerings (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure Database, GCP Cloud SQL)
- Familiarity with application development or scripting in BASH, Java or Python, particularly for automating databases install/configuration
- Experience with general Monitoring and Alerting
