Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

As a Senior Database Administrator at Foley, you will own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You'll play a critical role in supporting our AWS data warehouse environment while partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to ensure our data systems scale securely and reliably as the business grows.

What you'll do:

Own database reliability, performance, and availability

• Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments

• Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs

Lead data warehouse operations in AWS

• Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases

Manage database security and access controls

• Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing

• Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements

• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability

Collaborate cross-functionally

• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs

• Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership

Drive operational excellence and automation

• Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring

• Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal

AI Fluent

• Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.

• Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our DBA operations and architecture.

Who you are:

• You might thrive in this role if you have 7+ years of experience managing production database environments

• Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server , including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DR

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies , including Amazon Redshift

• Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams

• Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity , with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency

Location:

This role is primarily remote (US based) and will work in EST hours, with the expectation of occasional visits to our offices for team collaboration, training, or company events.

This role may be based remotely out of the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin.