Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and optimize RDS MySQL databases; provide support for Redshift where applicable.

• Handle production support, including incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of data platforms.

• Implement and manage backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Partner with Data Engineers to support data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and schema design.

• Assist in building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for data platform automation.

• Collaborate with security and governance teams to ensure compliance with data policies and regulations.

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across the data platform.

• Provide hands-on support for new projects and migrations, bridging DBA responsibilities with data engineering needs.

Required Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in database administration and data platform engineering.

• Strong experience with RDS MySQL (or equivalent relational DBMS in cloud environments).

• Solid understanding of SQL, performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization.

• Experience supporting production environments, including monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and automation practices.

• Ability to collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support pipelines, models, and data products.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Amazon Redshift administration and optimization.

• Exposure to Matillion or Fivetran for data integration.

• Familiarity with Bitbucket for CI/CD and version control.

• Knowledge of OpenFlow or other orchestration/workflow tools.

• Background in data governance, metadata management, and compliance frameworks.

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