Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; McLean, Virginia, United States; Richmond, Virginia, United States

Exiger transforms supply chains into a strategic advantage, advancing our mission to make the world a safer and more transparent place to succeed. Our AI platform, 1Exiger, delivers instant visibility into complex supplier ecosystems, leveraging proprietary data and advanced AI to surface risk, automate compliance, and unlock efficiencies and cost savings to strengthen long-term resilience. Trusted by 550+ global customers, including Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, Exiger is a recognized, award-winning leader in supply chain AI and a FedRAMP® authorized provider to the federal government.

Exiger is the market leader in AI-native supply chain and third-party risk management, serving more than 60 federal agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises on a FedRAMP High authorized platform.

We are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the data foundation powering 1Exiger, our agentic AI platform, as well as our core transactional and analytical workloads. This is not a traditional DBA role. You will manage cloud databases and data platforms while helping build the AI-native data infrastructure required for vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, and agent memory.

You will work across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and future IL5/IL6 air-gapped environments, partnering with platform, AI/ML, infrastructure, and security teams to support product innovation, Sovereign AI, and operational excellence.

What You'll Do

• Architect, operate, and optimize Exiger's cloud data platforms across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and future IL5/IL6 environments.
• Own performance, scale, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies across transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.
• Build and support AI-native data infrastructure for 1Exiger, including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, evaluation data, and agent memory.
• Ensure data security, encryption, access control, auditability, lineage, retention, and CUI handling meet FedRAMP High and federal customer requirements.
• Partner with security teams on POA&M remediation, vulnerability management, control evidence, and continuous monitoring.
• Drive cost optimization, modernization, and consolidation across legacy and cloud data estates using FinOps and open data architecture principles.
• Promote DevOps best practices, including infrastructure as code, automated schema migrations, CI/CD integration, and feature-flag-gated releases.
• Mentor engineers and DBAs on scalable, cost-aware, compliance-ready data architecture.

Technical Environment

• Cloud: AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, future IL5/IL6 air-gapped environments
• Databases: PostgreSQL, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
• Analytics/lakehouse: Snowflake, S3, Iceberg, Trino, Athena
• AI data infrastructure: pgvector, OpenSearch, vector search, embeddings, RAG, inference telemetry
• Infrastructure and release: Terraform, Pulumi, GitLab/GitHub pipelines, OpenFeature, automated schema migrations
• Observability: Graphana
• Data: High-volume, regulated datasets, including CUI and federal supply chain intelligence

What You Need

• 8+ years of database administration experience with increasing ownership of cloud data architecture.
• Deep expertise in cloud database design, performance tuning, scaling, capacity planning, cost planning, backup, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, encryption, access control, and audit requirements for data platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements.
• Working knowledge of, or strong interest in, AI data infrastructure such as vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and model telemetry.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, and security teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with FedRAMP, StateRAMP, IL4+, NIST 800-53, or federal compliance environments.
• Experience in compliance, risk, financial services, defense, or data-intensive SaaS environments.
• Experience with air-gapped or disconnected database environments.
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization at scale.
• Experience supporting ML or AI platforms in production.

Why You'll Love Working at Exiger:

• High-performance culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.
• Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
• Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
• Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications

This is a full-time hybrid opportunity, requiring 2 days a week in office.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.