Sr Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or open to relocation.

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

This role is part of the TechOps, Quality & Systems Engineering (TQSE) team within Disney Experiences Technology, partnering closely with teams across multiple lines of business—including applications, Disney Signature Experiences, and Disney Cruise Line—to support enterprise-wide initiatives.

The Senior Database Administrator will report to the Manager, Database Operations.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DX database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
• Leverage processes and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
• Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
• Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration.
• Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
• Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
• Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Provide relevant insights into database infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
• Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
• Provides oversight and direction to junior team members.
• Build relationships with engineering teams and leads.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Must have at least 5 years of related work experience with Relational and NoSQL databases, including experience managing Amazon RDS databases or similar Cloud database-as-a-service deployments.
• Must have experience with Oracle AND/OR PostgreSQL
• Demonstrated level of understanding of database internals, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration.
• Must have experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
• Must have experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and/or Cloud provider tools.
• Well-versed in database backup, restore, and recovery strategies
• Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues.
• Comfortable being a technical resource on complex projects such as upgrades or migrations with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.
• Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS and other Cloud providers.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Replication setup and configuration to optimally support replication and migration use cases.
• Understanding of and experience with Linux operating systems, network, and containers.
• Comfortable being a go-to resource for all database-related issues raised by our engineering partners.
• Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Intermediate or higher level of experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile software development.
• Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).

The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $111,900.00 - $150,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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