Cloud Database Administrator

Looking for Independent Visa's only (No sponsorship)

Job Title: Sr. Database Administrator

Location: (Raleigh, NC, Charlotte, NC, Memphis, TN & Birmingham, AL)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Mandatory-

Azure Postgres SQL
Azure SQL DB
Cosmos DB

Job Summary:

Experienced Cloud DBAs to support and manage modern cloud-based database platforms including PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Redis, and MongoDB. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in administration, performance tuning, high availability, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting across multiple cloud database technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain, and optimize cloud-hosted databases: PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, MongoDB.
• Perform routine database operations such as backups, restores, replication configuration, and monitoring.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of database systems in production environments.
• Diagnose and resolve database performance bottlenecks, including query tuning and resource optimization.
• Implement database security best practices, auditing, and compliance controls.
• Work closely with application teams to support development, deployments, and data-related troubleshooting.
• Perform capacity planning and recommend improvements to ensure optimal database performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production support.
• Support migration projects, upgrades, patching, and adoption of new cloud-native database features.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBAin cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQLadministration and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in managing Azure Cosmos DBincluding partitions, consistency models, and global distribution.
• Experience with Redisas a distributed cache and key-value store, including clustering and persistence models.
• Practical knowledge of MongoDBincluding sharding, replica sets, and query optimization.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform), preferably Azure.
• Good scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform database certifications.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation).
• Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.