Senior Database Administrator
As a Senior Database Administrator at Foley, you will own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You’ll play a critical role in supporting our AWS data warehouse environment while partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to ensure our data systems scale securely and reliably as the business grows.
What you’ll do:
Own database reliability, performance, and availability
- Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments
- Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs
Lead data warehouse operations in AWS
- Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases
Manage database security and access controls
- Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing
- Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability
Collaborate cross-functionally
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs
- Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership
Drive operational excellence and automation
- Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring
- Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal
AI Fluent
- Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
- Use AI to maintain, scale, and impr...