Database Administrator

Description
Our client in the higher education space is currently looking for a SQL database admin with AWS experience. They have one database that is running in RDS. It is a SQL server database that uses themodel. They are going to need someone that can take and ether convert that to a nice relational database or extract it into a data warehouse where we can get our reporting from and make our reporting easier than the way it's being stored right now. They won't be doing reports, but will be working with someone who's designing the actual reports. Success in this role will ensure that the database is running well and helping them redesign or add design features that we need. They will need to work with a reporting designer to extract data that way, and they need to know how to do a data warehouse extraction from the database itself.
This DBA will be assigned to the largest grant funded project on the team and that team is in early discussions of migrating this application to AWS.
First week, they will immediately start participating in the knowledge transfer sessions with the other team members that will be working on this project. From there they would be mapping out ideas on changing up the database setup. One of their first tasks will be figuring out how to make the data more accessible to reporting so that is easier for people who are not database gurus and do not necessarily understand this data model.
Required skills:
Database Architecture and Design

• Design scalable, normalized, and high-performance database systems.

Advanced Performance Tuning and Optimization
Advanced index tuning, partitioning strategies, tempdb optimization.
Cloud Data Platforms Expertise

1. AWS RDS (Required)

• Security and Access Control:- Managing roles/policies for RDS access, Controlling RDS network access, Configuring firewall rules.
• High Availability & Replication:- Understanding replication lag and monitoring.
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning:- Amazon CloudWatch, Enhanced Monitoring and Performance Insights, Query optimization and use of slow query logs.
• Cost Management:- Cost implications of storage types, IOPS, instance sizes, backups, and snapshots, Using Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for cost optimization, Monitoring with AWS Budgets and Cost Explorer.
• Migration strategies: Lift-and-Shift, Re-platforming, Cloud-native deployments.

Automation, Scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• CI/CD pipelines for databases (e.g GitHub Actions).

Security and Compliance at Scale
Backup and Restore Strategies
Capacity Planning and Forecasting

• Analyze growth trends, IO patterns, and forecast storage and compute needs over months/years.

Disaster Simulation and Documentation

• Create thorough documentation and recovery playbooks for junior DBAs and DevOps.

Leadership, Mentorship, and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead database team initiatives.
• Partner closely with application architects, developers, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.
• Mentor junior DBAs and build best practices.

Nice to have Azure SQL Managed Instance
This position is contract to hire and 100% remote. W2 only. Not open to C2C.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $48.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on May 21, 2025.

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