Senior Cloud Database Administrator We're looking for a Senior Cloud Database Administrator with deep hands on expertise in MySQL, InnoDB, AWS RDS, and Amazon Aurora MySQL to join a sprint based Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE) team. This is not a traditional ticket driven DBA role. You'll help evolve database operations into a reliability first, automation driven, self service platform, independently troubleshooting complex production issues, executing recovery under pressure, and automating manual work.
Key Responsibilities:- Administer and optimize MySQL/InnoDB databases on AWS RDS and Aurora MySQL, including provisioning, scaling, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning
- Troubleshoot complex production issues such as slow queries, replication lag, locking, deadlocks, and resource contention
- Tune performance through execution plan analysis, query and index optimization, and InnoDB configuration
- Design and maintain backup, restore, PITR, and disaster recovery procedures that meet defined RTOs and RPOsSupport high availability using Aurora clusters, Multi AZ, read replicas, and automated failover
- Monitor health, performance, and capacity using CloudWatch and Performance Insights/Database Insights, and recommend right sizing
- Automate DBA operations and build self service capabilities using Python, Bash, SQL, AWS CLI, and Infrastructure as Code where applicable
- Implement secure, least privilege configurations (IAM, encryption, credential management) and support audits and compliance
- Participate in on call and incident response, including root cause analysis
- Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum team and maintain runbooks, documentation, and database standards
