Database Administrator (Remote)

Job Summary

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Our Revenue Compliance platforms process tax, business license, and property tax data for government agencies across the country. The databases behind those platforms are the system of record; when they are slow, unavailable, or incorrect, our customers cannot collect revenue.

The Database Administrator owns the day-to-day health of those databases and serves as a hands-on contributor to the organization's migration to Amazon Aurora. This is a build-and-run position. A portion of the work is migration-focused, including assessment, schema and data movement, and cutover rehearsal. The remainder covers the operational fundamentals of backup and recovery, performance, capacity, and security. The role sits within a small group of database specialists working alongside software engineering, site reliability, and data engineering, and carries direct ownership of platform stability with a short path between the work and the outcome.

Duties and Responsibilities

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• Administer production and non-production MySQL and MariaDB environments, including backup and restore, replication, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and monitoring.
• Contribute to the Amazon Aurora migration through assessment, schema and data migration, replication and cutover planning, validation, and rollback procedures; help establish operating practices for the target environment.
• Profile slow queries, analyze execution plans, and design and maintain indexing strategies; partner with application engineers to resolve performance problems at the source rather than masking them.
• Maintain and regularly test backup and recovery procedures; own recovery point and recovery time objectives and demonstrate that they are met.
• Manage access controls, credentials, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit requirements for systems handling sensitive government and taxpayer data.
• Replace manual database operations w