[Remote] Sr. Database Administrator (Postgres/MySQL)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harrier Information Systems is a fast-growing digital transformation services company focused on providing solutions for the global financial services and healthcare industries. They are seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and maintain PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, ensuring high availability and compliance with privacy regulations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain our PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Athena databases running on AWS Cloud, ensuring high availability and reliability
• Monitor the performance and overall health of our databases, proactively identifying and resolving the issues
• Design and implement growth strategies for our databases, ensuring they can handle the rapidly increasing demands of our organization
• Develop, implement and maintain very high security standards to protect our highly sensitive PHI data from both external and internal threats
• Ensure compliance with various database privacy regulations and frameworks like HIPAA, SOC2 etc
• Design and implement Business Continuity Plan(BCP) and Disaster Recovery(DR) Plan
• Develop and maintain a pipeline to restore anonymized data from production to the lower environments
• Work closely with the security team to develop a comprehensive risk analysis and response for data infrastructure
• Collaborate with development, architecture, and release teams, providing architectural design recommendations to effectively adapt the database environment to support new platform features and capabilities
• Work closely with the Data Engineering team to build, maintain, and troubleshoot ETL jobs for downstream applications

Skills

• 7 to 10 Years of experience in Database Administration
• Experience working and managing SQL and No-SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Redshift, DynamoDB, Big Query, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Snowflake
• Deep understanding of AWS Database services, especially AWS RDS, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc
• Ability to use tools to identify bottlenecks or performance problems, enabling query and schema optimization
• Experience using modern monitoring tools like Cloud Watch, Data Dog, etc., and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming and dashboards
• Experience managing change management practices, policies and procedures
• Experience with infrastructure automation, systems reliability, load balancing, monitoring, and logging
• Strong scripting skills in SQL, Python, Shell etc
• Experience working in and architecting for regulated environments with data privacy regulations like GDPR, HIPAA preferred

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