Posted Apr 7, 2026
Key Responsibilities:
Deploy, configure, maintain, and upgrade SQL Server and PostgreSQL database environments across development, testing, and production. - Ensure database servers are securely configured, patched, and compliant with operational standards. - Manage backup, restore, and maintenance strategies to ensure data protection and availability. - Deploy and manage database environments within Google Cloud Platform. - Provision database servers using Compute Engine virtual machines or managed services such as Cloud SQL where appropriate. - Configure networking, storage, and security controls for cloud-hosted database systems. - Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies in cloud environments. - Design and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions. - Configure and support replication technologies including transactional replication where required. - Perform regular testing of backup and recovery procedures. - Maintain monitoring and alerting using enterprise monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and other Database monitoring tooling. - Ensure proactive monitoring of database performance and availability. - Provide operational expertise and platform guidance across engineering teams. - Identify and resolve database performance issues. - Work with development teams to optimize queries, indexing strategies, and schema design. - Develop automation and tooling to support database provisioning, patching, backup management, and routine maintenance tasks, reducing manual operational work and improving platform consistency. - Maintain automation scripts, configuration, and operational tooling in version-controlled repositories using standard engineering workflows. - Apply software engineering practices such as version control, code review, and CI/CD to database automation and operational tooling. - Contribute to the development and maintenance of database standards and procedures. - Maintain database security, access control, and auditing practices. - Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure database platforms support application performance and reliability. Qualifications Required:
Robust administration experience with SQL Server and PostgreSQL in production environments. - Experience supporting additional database platforms such as Couchbase is beneficial. - Experience deploying and managing database infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform. - Familiarity with services such as Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, persistent storage, networking configuration, and IAM. - Experience designing and supporting high availability and disaster recovery architectures. Role Overview: As a Senior Database Administrator within the Database Platform team, you will design, build, and operate the organizations database infrastructure platform. You will play a key role in the evolution of our database architecture, helping define standards, tooling, and best practices for how databases are deployed, managed, and operated across the organization. The Database Platform underpins critical services across the engineering organization and must deliver high levels of reliability, scalability, and automation. The team follows a platform engineering approach, focusing on automation, infrastructure-as-code, and repeatable platform builds to minimize manual operational work and improve system reliability. Th
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