Senior Application Database Administrator (SQL Server)

The Senior Application Database Administrator plays a key role in designing, supporting, and improving cloud-based databases that power modern applications. This person partners closely with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure databases are reliable, scalable, secure, and optimized for performance. This is a hands-on role with strong technical leadership, where you will guide best practices and help teams build solutions that work well in cloud environments while supporting business-critical applications. You will report to the Software Development Agile Developer.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, performance, and reliability of cloud-based, application-facing databases

• Partner with engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient database solutions

• Guide best practices for database design, schema changes, and performance tuning

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, leading root cause analysis when needed

• Implement standards, guardrails, and automation to improve database operations

• Mentor team members and support knowledge sharing across engineering and database communities

• 7+ years of experience working with application databases or in DBA roles, including cloud environments

• Strong expertise in at least one relational database platform (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server)

• Hands-on experience with cloud-managed database services and modern architectures

• Advanced skills in SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting

• Experience supporting production systems and making sound technical decisions independently

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across diverse teams