Database Administrator

You will lead large database migration projects driven by acquisitions, client onboarding, and platform growth, minimizing downtime and ensuring zero data loss. You will design and execute deployment strategies for blue/green migrations, archiving, and partitioning across relational, key-value, and document databases. You will use AI-driven automation and AI-assisted development tools to strengthen the data platform, ship Terraform modules and operational tooling faster, and collaborate with the data insights team on a shared data lakehouse. You will guide engineers toward the right data storage solutions, promote a strong documentation culture, and participate in incident management and support rotations.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale database migration projects driven by acquisitions, client onboarding, and platform growth, minimizing service disruption and ensuring no data loss
• Design and execute deployment strategies for blue/green migrations, archiving, and data partitioning across relational, key-value, and document databases
• Apply AI-driven automation to strengthen the data platform across operational excellence, security and compliance, performance and scalability, and resilience and capacity planning
• Use AI-assisted development tools and spec-driven workflows to design, automate, and deploy database platform changes such as Terraform modules, runbooks, diagnostics, and operational tools
• Collaborate with the data insights team to build a shared data lakehouse, bridging transactional data stores and analytical infrastructure
• Guide engineers in implementing fit-for-purpose database solutions across relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), key-value (Redis), document (MongoDB), and search (Elasticsearch) environments
• Promote a strong documentation culture by developing and sharing high-quality knowledge resources for engineers and AI-assisted workflows
• Participate in incident management and support rotations to ensure data infrastructure availability

Requirements

• Excellent understanding of AI-assisted development with hands-on experience with tools such as Cursor and Claude
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL in large-scale production environments, with deep knowledge of database internals
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch)
• 2+ years of experience with AWS cloud services
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform
• Knowledge of data lakehouse and analytics infrastructure (e.g., Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog) is an asset
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical topics to colleagues and stakeholders
• Experience working in a distributed team