[Remote] Database Administrator
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ETHOS - Talent & Advisory is seeking a Database Administrator to own the performance, availability, security, and resilience of database platforms across development, testing, and production. The role also partners with engineering and operations teams on deployments, data modeling, reusable datasets, dashboards, and reports.
Responsibilities
- You'll be the person responsible for keeping our database platforms fast, available, and secure across development, testing, and production. That means real ownership: you'll tune the queries and indexes, size and configure the environments, manage users and permissions, run backup, replication, and disaster recovery, and step in when something is slow at 4pm on a release day and nobody knows why. You'll work with a high degree of independence — this is not a role where you wait to be assigned work
- You'll partner with Development, QA, Operations, and Data Engineering on deployments, schema changes, and application performance work, and you'll design logical data models, develop reusable datasets, and stand up dashboards and reports that people across the business actually use to make decisions
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field — or equivalent hands-on experience
- • 5+ years administering production database environments (DBA, database engineering, or data operations)
- • Advanced relational database skills — PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server — including schema design, indexing strategy, query optimization, and performance tuning
- • Hands-on ownership of backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery
- • Working knowledge of database security and access control: roles and permissions, encryption, auditing, and compliance requirements
- • Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or equivalent
- • Experience building dashboards or reports in Power BI, Tableau, or a similar tool
- • Ability to explain a technical problem clearly to people who don't administer databases for a living
- • Experience partnering directly with Dev, QA, and Data Engineering through deployments, schema changes, and incident response
- • Data governance depth — lineage, data quality, retention, access frameworks
- • NoSQL exposure alongside your relational work
- • A track record of automating away the operational toil rather than absorbing it
- • Experience mentoring or onboarding other engineers
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