Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. They are hiring a Senior Database Administrator to join their DevOps team, responsible for the operation, performance, reliability, and security of Keeper’s cloud database environments.
Responsibilities
- Maintain databases across development, QA and production environments in multiple regions
- Continually improve database performance, efficiency, reliability and security
- Design and support fault-tolerant, highly available database architecture, including replication, failover and disaster recovery capabilities
- Administer and optimize AWS database services such as RDS, Redshift and DynamoDB
- Collaborate with DevOps, Engineering and Software Development teams on query optimization, schema design and database management best practices
- Evaluate, test and deploy database changes that support new system deployments, product features and platform improvements
- Manage backup and restore procedures, database monitoring, alerting and incident response
- Help standardize and automate database operations using repeatable tooling and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Use AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve DBA productivity, troubleshooting, analysis and operational efficiency
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems and resolve escalated issues
Skills
- 6+ years of experience administering and operating MySQL databases in production environments
- Strong experience with AWS database services, including RDS, and familiarity with services such as Redshift and DynamoDB
- Expert knowledge of database administration best practices, including performance tuning, backup and restore, replication, disaster recovery and security
- Experience designing and supporting highly available, fault-tolerant database architectures
- Experience evaluating, implementing and maintaining database schema changes in controlled production environments
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code or database change management tooling, including Liquibase
- Ability to use AI tools effectively to support DBA workflows such as troubleshooting, automation, analysis and operational efficiency
- Strong documentation and design discipline, with an engineering-first approach to planning and implementation
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Due to this role's involvement in regulated cloud environments, all applicants must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
- Experience with database automation, scripting and operational tooling
- Experience supporting multi-region production environments
- Familiarity with cloud security, compliance and access control best practices
- Experience partnering closely with application engineering teams on database performance and reliability
- Experience in cybersecurity or other security-sensitive software environments
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
- Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life
- Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401K (Roth/Traditional)
- A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)
- Above market annual bonuses
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