Database Administrator

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IT & Infrastructure Full Time Data Architecture Remote, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Staritas, we help healthcare organizations make every choice clear. We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join our team. The Database Administrator (DBA) is responsible for the administration, performance, security, availability, and maintenance of Staritas' database environments. This role supports the organization's healthcare technology platforms by ensuring the integrity, reliability, and scalability of critical data systems. The Database Administrator works closely with Engineering, Product, Analytics, and Infrastructure teams to optimize database performance, implement best practices, and support business and customer needs.

• Administer, monitor, maintain, and support production and non-production database environments.
• Ensure database performance, availability, reliability, and scalability through proactive monitoring and optimization.
• Perform database installations, upgrades, patches, and configuration changes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database-related issues, performance bottlenecks, and system outages.
• Strong SQL Server administration: availability groups, TDE, CDC and replication, backup and restore, performance tuning.
• Hands-on Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL:
  Multi-AZ and read replicas, Serverless v2 capacity, parameter groups, snapshots and point-in-time restore, Performance Insights or Cloud Watch Database Insights.
• PostgreSQL administration: roles and row-level security, logical replication, extensions, major-version upgrades (including RDS blue/green deployments).
• Migrating SQL Server to AWS: choosing between RDS, RDS Custom and EC2; native backup and restore through S3; AWS DMS with change data capture.
• Database security on AWS: KMS encryption, Secrets Manager rotation, IAM database authentication, TLS with properly validated certificates.
• Backup and DR: AWS Backup, cross-region copies, regular restore testing, Aurora Global Database failover.
• Comfortable making changes through Terraform pull requests rather than the console. Every change on our platform goes through a pipeline.
• Monitor database security, access controls, and compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering teams on database design, development, deployment, and optimization initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of database administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience administering relational database management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server,
  PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar platforms.

Experience with database backup, recovery, maintenance, and performance tuning.

Experience troubleshooting database performance and availability issues.

Experience supporting cloud-based and SaaS applications.

• Experience with in healthcare technology, healthcare data, or regulated environments.
• Experience supporting cloud database platforms in Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Data lake basics (S3, Glue, Athena, Iceberg), enough to work with the data platform team on DMS targets.
• SQL Server with Active Directory on AWS (domain join, Windows auth, AWS Managed AD).
• SQL Server licensing on AWS (License Included vs BYOL and License Mobility).

• Proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other enterprise database platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, database architecture, indexing, query optimization, and…