Sr Database Administrator

Sr 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).