Principal Database Administrator

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Principal Database Administrator.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide database administration, architecture, design, management, and optimization for AWS and Azure environments
• Ensure availability, reliability, recoverability, performance, and security of cloud-based database systems
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and collaborate with IT colleagues to meet production SLAs

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical major such as engineering or computer science
• Five or more years of experience with cloud databases in IaaS and PaaS models on AWS and Azure
• Five or more years of experience administering AWS RDS and Azure SQL database systems
• AWS certification in AWS Certified Database - Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect is preferred
• Experience managing databases with a minimum size of 1TB and at least 200 concurrent users