Sr. Database Administrator-Remote, USA

Compensation:$120,000-$150,000 per year. You are eligible to a Short-Term Incentive Plan with the target at 7.5% of your annual earnings, terms and conditions apply.

Sr. Database Administrator-Remote, USA

As a database administrator at Ambry, you will be working with multiple engineering teams to monitor, define, and manage several small and large databases across the company. The DBA ensures access to the database and has maximized uptime within the defined constraints. You will have the opportunity to create innovative solutions and leverage the latest technologies to make our diagnostics-testing better. We use agile development methodology and expect our DBAs to be self-motivated, work well independently, and work with our developers during software design, development, and deployments.

Essential Functions

• The DBA will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our database systems to ensure they are secure, scalable, and reliable. You will work closely with our development team to ensure that our applications meet business requirements and technical specifications.
• The DBA will be responsible for overseeing the organization of databases, assessment, and implementation of new technologies.
• Perform patching, backup and recovery of databases, index maintenance, performance tuning and monitoring of databases.
• Conduct root cause analysis within a ticketing system and incident response forms on critical database events.
• Support horizontal scale outs for HA proxys, MySQL GTID replication server farms in a big data, high volume LAMP stack environment.
• Provide recommendations and strategies to application developers on how to improve performance and scalability of their database components.
• The DBA will be responsible for working with Architecture, Application Development, and IT Operations groups to develop both physical and logical database administration functions.
• Establishing data disaster recovery best practices
• Familiarity with database masking utilities such as Delphix Continuous Compliance.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Must be able to effectively coordinate, communicate, and multi-task across various groups and functional teams inside and outside of the organization.
• Advanced experience with administration (installation, management, configuration, monitoring, backing up, restoring, upgrading, and patching) of either Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, Presto, Spark, or similar data platforms
• Experience with establishing and implementing database security and backup retention policies.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems independently
• Experience implementing database schema changes in live production environment requiring minimal downtime and zero performance impact.
• Experience with managing the full life-cycle of database schema design and implementation, which includes script management from development through production releases.
• Experience with scaling up and out (e.g. sharding based on specific keys) databases to meet the needs of increased storage and computing capacity.
• Bachelor's in computer science (or similar relevant specialization) or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of DBA experience.

Preferred

• Master's degree
• 4+ years of extensive experience in AWS.
• AWS certifications are a big plus; Database Specialty in particular.
• Experience implementing cloud solutions in Healthcare and Life sciences space.

About Us:

Ambry Genetics Corporation is a CAP-accredited and CLIA-licensed molecular genetics laboratory based in Aliso Viejo, California. We are a genetics-based healthcare company that is dedicated to open scientific exchange so we can work together to understand and treat all human disease faster.

At Ambry, everyone is welcome. A career at Ambry Genetics is a chance to be part of a dynamic company that aims to improve health by understanding the relationships between genetics and human disease. We earned our reputation as industry leaders by responsibly introducing cutting-edge genetic testing solutions and continually sharing what we learn with the global scientific community.

At Ambry you will be learning, challenging yourself, and having fun while collaborating with teammates through the open exchange of ideas. Our outstanding benefits program includes medical, dental, vision, 401k with a 4% employer match, FSA, paid sick leave and generous paid time off (PTO) program. You can learn more about the benefits here. Ambry Genetics is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and we maintain a drug-free work environment.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race (and traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression (including transgender status), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected]

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