Lead Database Administrator

The company

Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

Position summary

This is a new position created as the team has grown over the last year. DBA role covering on-premises and cloud databases, including a planned move to Amazon RDS. This role is fully remote within the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Job duties

• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Review and deploy schema changes from development teams
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Plan capacity for storage, memory and CPU growth
• Automate maintenance with PowerShell, SQL Agent jobs or Bash
• Support audits with evidence for encryption, access reviews and backup retention
• Install, configure and patch SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL instances

What you'll need

• 8+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery setups
• Willingness to work occasional nights and weekends for maintenance windows

Also helpful

• AWS RDS, Aurora or Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Microsoft DP-300 or Oracle OCP certification

Perks and benefits

$155,000 - $188,000 a year

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• 11 paid holidays
• Profit sharing
• Short- and long-term disability

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Yeager IT LLC.