Senior Database Administrator @SmithRx
Software Development
Salary unspecified
Remote Location
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA Only
Job Type full-time
Posted 3wks ago

[Hiring] Senior Database Administrator @SmithRx

3wks ago - SmithRx is hiring a remote Senior Database Administrator. πŸ’Έ Salary: unspecified πŸ“Location: USA

Role Description

We are looking for an Sr. Database Administrator who has hands-on experience designing and administering cloud-based Database systems. Additionally, this engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the data infrastructure, including maintenance, upgrades, monitoring, performance tuning, scaling, and query optimization. Our user base is currently doubling annually, and you would share the responsibility of orchestrating a reliable, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure.

What you will do:

  • Manage and maintain our PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Athena databases running on AWS Cloud, ensuring high availability and reliability.
  • Monitor the performance and overall health of our databases, proactively identifying and resolving the issues.
  • Design and implement growth strategies for our databases, ensuring they can handle the rapidly increasing demands of our organization.
  • Develop, implement and maintain very high security standards to protect our highly sensitive PHI data from both external and internal threats.
  • Ensure compliance with various database privacy regulations and frameworks like HIPAA, SOC2 etc.
  • Design and implement Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan.
  • Develop and maintain a pipeline to restore anonymized data from production to the lower environments.
  • Work closely with the security team to develop comprehensive risk analysis and response for data infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with development, architecture, and release teams providing architectural design recommendations to effectively adapt the database environment to support new platform features and capabilities.
  • Work closely with the Data Engineering team to build, maintain and troubleshoot ETL jobs for downstream applications.
  • Support software development teams to drive proper coding practices and assist in the development of complex queries, tuning of DML.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Database Administration.
  • BS or advanced degree in computer science or other related field.
  • Experience working and managing SQL and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, BigQuery, MongoDB, Cassandra and Snowflake.
  • Deep understanding of AWS Database services, especially AWS RDS, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB etc.
  • Ability to use tools to identify bottlenecks or performance problems enabling query and schema optimization.
  • Experience using modern monitoring tools like Cloudwatch, DataDog etc., and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming and dashboards.
  • Experience managing change management practices, policies and procedures.
  • Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, logging.
  • Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred.
  • Strong scripting skills in SQL, Python, Shell etc.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive wellness benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Benefits.
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Program.
  • Short-term and long-term disability.
  • Discretionary Paid Time Off.
  • Paid Company Holidays.
  • Wellness Benefits.
  • Commuter Benefits.
  • Paid Parental Leave benefits.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Well-stocked kitchen in office locations.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
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Senior Database Administrator @SmithRx
Software Development
Salary unspecified
Remote Location
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA Only
Job Type full-time
Posted 3wks ago
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