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.

• 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:

• 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.
• 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.