foley - Senior Database Administrator
Requirements
• You might thrive in this role if you have 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 • Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments • Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams • Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency • Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools) • Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms • This role is primarily remote (US based) and will work in EST hours, with the expectation of occasional visits to our offices for team collaboration, training, or company events. • This role may be based remotely out of the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin.
Responsibilities
• Own database reliability, performance, and availability • Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments • Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs • Lead data warehouse operations in AWS • Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency • Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases • Manage database security and access controls • Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing • Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements • Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability • Collaborate cross-functionally • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs • Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership • Drive operational excellence and automation • Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring • Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal • Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset. • Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture.
Benefits
• Foley offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off and holidays, wellness programs, and an employee assistance program. • Equal Employment Opportunity
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