Senior Database Administrator

Overview

About Arcwood

Every advancement—from the products we use to the medicines and technologies we depend on—creates waste that must be handled responsibly. For more than 50 years, Arcwood Environmental has helped organizations across the United States manage the byproducts of progress safely and thoughtfully. With deep expertise and innovative waste management technology across a growing nationwide footprint, Arcwood protects people, communities, and the environment through work that often happens behind the scenes.

Our Values

• Lead with Safety: We uphold the highest safety and compliance standards to protect our teams, our customers and the communities that count on us.
• Solve Problems Creatively: We push for better – advancing technologies, processes, and ideas that protect human health and the environment.
• Own It Together: We are individually and collectively accountable for our work and our impact, knowing that progress is only achieved by working together – with our customers, and with each other.
• Deliver for Customers: We put customers at the center of all we do. When we live our values – lead with safety, solving problems creatively, and owning our work together – the result is clear: we deliver exceptional value for our customers.

We’ve reached a unique point as a company: big enough to deliver broad capability and consistent performance, while striving to be nimbler and more responsive to our customers’ evolving needs. Come join Arcwood and be part of our legacy of environmental leadership!

Senior Database Administrator

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Database Administrator to lead the administration, performance, reliability, and evolution of our enterprise database platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

This is a mission-critical role requiring deep technical expertise, operational ownership, and the ability to work independently while collaborating closely with our Managed Service Provider (MSP) and internal development teams. The successful candidate will serve as the primary internal database authority supporting business-critical applications.

Environment Overview:

• On-Premises, Cloud, and Hybrid infrastructure
• Development, Test, Staging, and Production environments
• Databases ranging from 400GB to 1TB+, depending on supported applications
• Kubernetes (K8s) practices utilized for application deployment
• CI/CD-driven release processes
• 24/7 on-call support shared with Managed Service Provider
• Security aligned with cybersecurity best practices

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

Enterprise Database Administration

• Administers and provides support for Oracle database, Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) and database management system (Informix)
• Manages installations, upgrades, patching, migrations, and lifecycle management across all environments
• Supports database integration within CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Coordinates database changes aligned with Kubernetes-based application deployments

Development Collaboration & Schema Design

• Partners closely with application development teams to design and enhance database schemas
• Reviews and optimizes data models to align with industry best practices and performance standards
• Provides guidance on indexing strategies, normalization/denormalization approaches, and query optimization
  
  Supports database design reviews during application development lifecycle
• Ensures schema changes are properly versioned and aligned with CI/CD processes
• Promotes scalable, maintainable, and secure database architecture standards

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Designs, implements, and maintains high-availability configurations
• Manages backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies
• Performs routine recovery validation testing
• Supports failover and business continuity planning

Performance & Optimization

• Conducts advanced performance tuning and optimization
• Analyzes execution plans, indexing strategies, and workload performance
• Proactively monitors capacity and scalability requirements
• Optimizes databases supporting large-scale (400GB–1TB+) workloads

Security & Safety

• Implements database security hardening standards
• Manages user…