Senior Database Administrator

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Database Administrator in United States.

This role sits at the core of a large-scale, mission-critical data environment supporting high-availability systems across both cloud and traditional infrastructure. You will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise database systems that power essential applications and services. Acting as a key technical authority, you will collaborate closely with engineering, architecture, and operations teams to ensure database performance, reliability, and scalability. The position combines hands-on database administration with architectural input, automation initiatives, and cross-team troubleshooting. You will play a central role in ensuring data integrity, system resilience, and operational continuity in a 24/7 production environment. This is a highly technical role suited for an experienced DBA who thrives in complex, high-availability ecosystems and values continuous improvement and automation.

Accountabilities

• Manage and support enterprise database environments across cloud and on-premise systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Perform core DBA functions including backups, recovery, patching, upgrades, cloning, user access management, and failover testing.
• Partner with application development teams to troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance database-driven applications.
• Design and maintain database documentation, including data dictionaries, system diagrams, and data mapping across integrated systems.
• Review database-related application code and DDL to ensure performance, efficiency, and adherence to best practices.
• Support database architecture design for new applications, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and minimal downtime during migrations.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across database and application layers in real time.
• Collaborate with L1/L2/L3 support teams to proactively identify and remediate system issues.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure continuous system reliability.
  
  

Requirements

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• 10+ years of hands-on Oracle database administration experience in a mission-critical, 24/7 production environment.
• Strong experience across the full database lifecycle including upgrades, patching, backups, recovery, and performance tuning.
• Experience working with application development languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, Go, or similar.
• Solid understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems and database infrastructure environments.
• Experience creating and maintaining enterprise-level data dictionaries and database documentation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across database and application layers with the ability to resolve issues independently.
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data integration workflows.
• Experience with SQL performance tuning and query optimization is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of data modeling, ER diagrams, and data warehousing concepts is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, and support teams.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and exposure to ITIL practices is an advantage.
• AWS experience and familiarity with automation tools such as Jenkins or Ansible are a strong plus.
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary range of $150,000-$165,000, based on experience and qualifications.

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• Fully remote work opportunity within the United States.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance starting from day one.
• 401(k) retirement plan with generous company match and annual profit-sharing contribution.
• Monthly fitness allowance, wellness day off, and enhanced mental health support resources.
• Tuition reimbursement program to support ongoing professional development.
• Paid time off, floating holidays, and additional special leave days including a birthday day off.
• Strong focus on work-life balance and employee wellbeing.
  
  

How Jobgether Works

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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