Staff Database Administrator

The Staff Database Administrator is responsible for project work critical to keeping systems current with the latest technology to ensure a stable environment for users. The scope of this job includes installation, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of our databases to increase performance, security, and high availability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recommend availability, performance, maintenance, security, and disaster recovery opportunities of the enterprise and application databases.
• Mentor and lead database engineering teams with their database management system needs, including completing code reviews and finalizing operational readiness.
• Ensure database systems are properly configured for high availability, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Investigate database technology trends to assess its feasibility and benefits in an enterprise environment.
• Perform complex disaster recovery functions.
• Strategize capacity planning and maintain comprehensive database documentation and configuration of data models.
• LeverageAItools and platforms as an integral part of daily responsibilities to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows, and drive data-informed outcomes.
• Perform other job duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 12-15 years of related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience, preferred majors are Engineering, Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems/Decision Sciences, Mathematics, Sciences, or other STEM related majors.
• At least 5 years' hands on experience supporting multi-tenant database systems in a high-availability and high-volume environment.
• Experience supporting PostgreSQL systems in cloud or datacenter environments.
• Detailed understanding of PostgreSQL architecture and internals.
• At least 3 years' experience working in a DevOps/SRE environment.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, especially working with virtual machines in AWS or GCP.
• Experience with cloud-native database systems such as AWS RDS, GCP CloudSQL, etc.
• Experience and strong understanding of database structures, data modeling, database schema design, database administration, best-practices.
• Experience supporting, monitoring, and configuring Linux environments for database systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code systems, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with server automation frameworks such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack
• Experience with PgBouncer
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, or DynamoDB.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience working in a secure regulated or healthcare software sector with experience designing and maintaining systems for HIPAA, HITRUST, or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Job Expectations:

• Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed
• Must work in accordance with applicable security policies and procedures to safeguard company and client information
• Must be able to sit and view a computer screen for extended periods of time

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Here are some of the exciting benefits full-time teammates are eligible to receive at WellSky:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Mental health benefits through TelaDoc
• Prescription drug coverage
• Generous paid time off, plus 13 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• 100% vested 401(K) retirement plans
• Educational assistance up to $2500 per year