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Consulting/Principal DBA
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About this role
Role overview
Provide senior technical consulting and hands-on leadership for enterprise database platforms across cloud and hybrid environments. The work spans MySQL and Oracle architecture, reliability, modernization, and operational standards, while guiding engineering teams and advising stakeholders on platform strategy.
Responsibilities - Assess database environments for reliability, performance, security, cost, and modernization opportunities, then shape improvement roadmaps. - Design and operate MySQL and Oracle platforms, including replication, clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and business continuity. - Lead migrations from traditional or on-premises systems to cloud-native architectures and managed database services. - Establish standards for database automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, deployment, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and compliance. - Mature SRE practices through service-level objectives, observability, incident response, postmortems, and operational automation. - Advise engineering, security, networking, and infrastructure partners; lead architecture reviews, communicate technical direction, and mentor engineers.
Requirements - Expert MySQL experience in administration, security, performance tuning, replication, and recovery. - Strong Oracle Database skills, including backup and recovery, Data Guard, RAC or comparable high-availability designs, tuning, security, and upgrades. - Proven experience with enterprise database architecture, assessments, modernization, cloud migrations, or technical consulting. - Strong Linux and networking troubleshooting skills, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls, TLS, and virtual networking. - Ability to develop and review production code and automation in Python, Go, Java, C#, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages. - Extensive Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, GitHub, CI/CD, cloud database, and SRE experience, along with strong consulting and communication skills.
Nice to have
Microsoft Azure and its managed database and availability services; Kubernetes; AI-assisted engineering workflows; or relevant Oracle, MySQL, or Azure certifications.
Benefits and work setup
The role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. The stated U.S. national base range is $104,900–$174,700, with geographic adjustments.