Manage and optimize large-scale database systems across AWS and SQL Server environments. Responsibilities include deploying database services, monitoring health and performance, configuring high-availability failover, managing replication and load balancing, maintaining production servers and SSIS packages, resolving performance issues, building monitoring and alerting processes, and supporting disaster recovery architecture. The role collaborates with data development, software engineering, and database administration teams to ensure reliable 24/7 operations.
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Location: Farmers Branch, TX
Schedule: Hybrid (3 days in-office / 2 days remote)
Position Overview:
As a Senior Database Administrator on the RANDA team, you will contribute to database management of highly complex and large-scale data-driven systems to enable RANDA business while supporting architectural vision of quality, scalability, performance, and functions.
Essential Role Functions:
- Selecting and deploying appropriate AWS database services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift with optimal scale and cost
- Monitoring AWS database health using tools like Amazon CloudWatch and Performance Insights
- Configure and test High Available automatic failover mechanisms to reroute traffic seamlessly if a primary node goes offline
- Monitor replication lag and data consistency across all nodes
- Manage load balancing to distribute read and write traffic evenly across the cluster
- Maintain RANDA database systems and improve their performance in conjunction with data development and software engineering teams to ensure smooth database operations across the enterprise
- Surgically work on performance monitoring, tuning, identifying, and fixing issues within database realm
- Take ownership in building highly available database clusters
- Establish database systems monitoring dashboards and procedures that will enable 24/7 business operations. Create alerts and develop processes to remediate known performance issues.
- Collaborate to build robust Disaster Recovery system and architecture for database systems
- Be part of ongoing monitoring support with other Database Administrators
Minimum Qualifications:
- 6-10 years in commercial-grade business applications environment leveraging the following:
- SQL Server Database Administration 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2022
- Hands on experience with AlwaysOn Availability Groups their creation, maintenance, and monitoring
- Expert at troubleshooting performance issues
- Maintain production servers, SSIS packages
- General understanding of SAN technologies and 3rd party monitoring tools
- Have good grasp of Cloud technology stack like AWS (Azure, Google Cloud is acceptable as well)
- Excellent communication, verbal and writing skills
- Minimal oversight required
What we Offer:
- Competitive base salary.
- Three weeks of paid time off within the first year of employment.
- Company provided life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and paid parental leave.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance options with low employee contributions.
- Commuter benefit plan.
- Optional supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, and accident & critical illness insurance offered at a group discount rate.
- 401(k).
- Unlimited access to our award-winning online fitness, and wellness program.
- A great place to work, fast-paced, with terrific career growth.
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