Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Foley is hiring a Senior Database Administrator to own the reliability, security, and performance of its cloud-based data platforms. The role leads administration and optimization of SQL Server and AWS data warehouse environments, supports analytics and AI use cases, and partners across teams to scale systems securely and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Own database reliability, performance, and availability
• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments
• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs
• Lead data warehouse operations in AWS
• Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases
• Manage database security and access controls
• Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing
• Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs
• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership
• Drive operational excellence and automation
• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring
• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal
• AI Fluent
• Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset
• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture

Skills

• 7+ years of experience managing production database environments
• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DR
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift
• Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams
• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency
• Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools)
• Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms

Benefits

• Bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Wellness programs
• Employee assistance program
• Primarily remote (US based), working EST hours, with occasional visits to offices for team collaboration, training, or company events.

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