Senior Cloud Database Administrator

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Cloud Database Administrator

Description

Senior Cloud Database Administrator responsible for managing, optimizing, and securing cloud databases with a hands-on approach across multiple platforms. The role includes designing high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and replication, automating provisioning and monitoring, and tuning schema/indexes and query performance to meet SLAs. You will also uphold security and compliance requirements and support incident response and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Administer cloud-based relational and non-relational database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.) across multiple environments

• Design and implement high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and data replication strategies in cloud-native environments

• Automate database provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance tasks using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or cloud-native services

• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize schema design, indexing strategies, and query performance

• Monitor database health and performance, proactively identify and resolve issues to meet SLAs

• Maintain security best practices for data access, encryption, and compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)

• Participate in incident response and perform root cause analysis for database-related events

• Support cloud cost optimization via efficient provisioning and resource management

Requirements

• Experience in database administration in cloud-native or hybrid environments

• Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL/Spanner)

• Proficiency in SQL and performance tuning for high-volume transactional systems

• Infrastructure-as-code and automation experience (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)

• Experience with database security, data masking, auditing, and regulatory compliance

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic)

Benefits

• Hands-on role focused on innovation, automation, and a customer-first mindset

• Collaboration with cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, resilient data solutions