Database Administrator III

$72-$78 per hour

Needham, MA

Contract

Contract Duration: 18-months

What We Do/Project

Central Technology and Services team (CTS) provides data analytics services that support game teams and analysts across the organization. As players perform actions in-game, our platform collects telemetry in real-time. The data collected provides insights for guiding game development, marketing, and monetization.

Some of our featured games include Game of Thrones: Conquest, Injustice 2, Mortal Kombat, Batman: Arkham Knight, Hogwarts Legacy.

The Data Platform Engineer / DBA manages our database and data platform fleet, maintaining secure, optimized, and highly available databases, data warehouses, and lakehouses. Our stack is evolving: Redshift remains a core platform, and we are actively expanding into Databricks and open table format (Apache Iceberg on S3). The Data Platform Engineer / DBA works closely with engineering and analytics teams to design, implement, and maintain these systems.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Operate Redshift clusters, Databricks workspaces, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL instances, and supporting AWS infrastructure

• Perform user/security tasks across platforms: Redshift user/group management, Databricks Unity Catalog access controls, IAM Roles/Policies, RDS parameter and access management

• Design and maintain open table format data lakes using Apache Iceberg on S3, including compaction, snapshot management, partition strategies, and schema evolution

• Profile production workloads and develop strategies to run optimized clusters and workspaces with scale and efficiency

• Provide architecture guidance and support to technical leads; help develop code and SQL for data assets, identify performance tuning opportunities, and work with developers to improve production systems

• Contribute to and maintain automation scripts and internal tooling with production-quality code standards (unit tests, peer review, documentation, Git-based workflows)

• Develop monitoring and recovery automation to identify and resolve issues to meet our high SLA

• Research new technologies and develop proofs of concept; propose technical improvements and new capabilities

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• Experience with AWS data services: Redshift, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, EC2, Athena, Glue, Lake Formation (3 years)

• Experience with Databricks: workspace administration, Unity Catalog, cluster management, Spark SQL, Delta Live Tables or similar (2 years)

• Experience with PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL: query tuning, replication concepts, pg_stat views, parameter groups (2 years)

• Experience with AWS Security: IAM (Users, Groups, Roles, Policies, Instance Profiles), Redshift/RDS security, S3 bucket policies (2 years)

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

• PySpark for data pipeline development

• AWS Glue with Iceberg or Delta Lake integration

• Snowflake administration

• Terraform or AWS CDK for infrastructure as code

• DynamoDB experience

• Feature Store

Soft Skills:

• Ability to read, understand, debug, and extend complex Python codebases; comfort navigating large repositories with multiple modules and abstractions

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills

• Ability to lead projects, prioritize, and multitask

• Deadline and detail-oriented

• Part of on-call rotation

Technology Requirements:

• Experience with Apache Iceberg on S3: partition management, compaction, snapshot management, schema evolution

• Proficiency in Python for automation and shared tooling: object-oriented design, writing maintainable and testable code, participating in code review, and contributing to a shared Git-based codebase

• Experience automating database and platform operations using Python, Jenkins, Airflow, Datadog, and Git

Education / Certifications

• None required.

Interview Process / Next Steps

• 1st round with Hiring Manager

• 2nd round (panel or 1:1) with Technical Teams (technical screening)

• Possible 3rd round interview.

Additional Notes

• Sourcing in MA - Needham or NY - Troy

• Hybrid role - 3-days on-site preferred.

Custom Fields:

• Name: Can the worker's time be capitalized in accordance with the company's accounting policy? Value: Yes

• Name: Please indicate the type of assignment Value: Ongoing - Assignment supports ongoing business-as-usual/run-state operations.

• Name: Is this assignment an approved integration or Project Spotlight expense? All integration and Project Spotlight expenses must be pre-approved by Technical Accounting Value: No

• Name: Worker Classification Value: Agency Worker

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