About the Role:
We are seeking a Database Administrator to partner closely with our engineering and cloud infrastructure teams. In this role, you’ll drive performance optimization and operational excellence across Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle environments, tuning SQL and improving data access patterns in the context of our application architecture and business logic.
You should be comfortable working in up-to-date DevOps and cloud environments using Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform. You will use Datadog for observability, performance monitoring, and alerting across database and application layers.
Key Responsibilities:
Core Database Administration
- Health & monitoring: Monitor database health, performance, and capacity across Azure managed PostgreSQL and Oracle using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.
- Data protection: Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
- Governance:
Administer access controls and user provisioning in alignment with security and financial compliance requirements.
Application Integration & SQL Optimization
- Application-centric tuning: Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application’s data access layer, using Datadog APM traces to pinpoint slow or ineSicient queries in production traSic.
- Code-level analysis: Read and understand Java code to trace data access patterns and ensure tuning aligns with how the application interacts with the database.
- Proactive design partnership: Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape eSicient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies before features ship.
- Root-cause remediation: Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring, then work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments that preserve application logic.
- Performance baselines: Establish and track perfor
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