IT Database Administrator

Database Administration & Support - Administer, monitor, and maintain Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL environments hosted on multi cloud environment such as Azure and AWS. - Ensure database availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and data integrity across development, test, and production environments. - Perform database installations, configuration, upgrades, patching, migrations, and version of lifecycle management. - Manage backup, restore, disaster recovery, replication, high availability, and business continuity processes. - Manage Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, users, roles, and permissions. - Implement role-based access control, network policies, authentication standards, and security best practices. - Support data ingestion, transformation, sharing, and integration processes. Performance, Monitoring & Automation - Monitor performance, optimize workloads and resource utilization, and support cost governance. - Tune SQL queries, indexes, execution plans, warehouses, and database configurations. - Automate recurring administration tasks and continuously improve operational processes. Security, Compliance & Governance - Implement least-privilege access, encryption, authentication, authorization, and privileged-access controls. - Support access reviews, security audits, compliance assessments, vulnerability remediation, and evidence collection. - Maintain database standards, architecture documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and disaster recovery procedures. - Participate in change management, release management, and incident management processes. Cloud & Data Platform Support - Support cloud database services and related infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS. - Partner with data engineering teams on Databricks connectivity, platform dependencies, and operational support. - Assist with integrations among databases, applications, ETL/ELT solutions, cloud services, and analytics platforms. - Understand, maintain, and align database services with enterprise architecture, security, reliability, and cost-management standards. Collaboration & Operational Support - Provide Level 2 and Level 3 database support and perform troubleshooting for complex incidents. - Participate in on-call support and critical incident response when required. - Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, application, cloud, and data engineering teams across regions. - Communicate risks, root causes, remediation plans, and service improvements clearly to technical and business stakeholders. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - 5+ years of hands-on database administration experience in enterprise environments. - Strong administration experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL databases. - Strong SQL scripting, query optimization, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity-planning skills. - Experience with database backup, recovery, replication, high availability, patching, and migration activities. - Experience supporting cloud-hosted database environments and applying database security best practices. - Ability to work independently in a remote environment and consistently align to US Pacific Time business hours. Preferred Qualifications - Hands-on exposure to Microsoft Azure services and working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and database services. - Experience with Databricks, modern data platforms, and ETL/ELT or data-integration solutions. - Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Azure DevOps, or Git. - Understanding of cybersecurity, identity and access management, audit controls, and regulated environments. - Relevant certifications in Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, AWS, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Databricks. Originally posted on Himalayas