About the Job
As a Senior Database Administrator at Foley, you will own the reliability, security, and performance of our cloud-based data platforms. You’ll play a critical role in supporting our AWS data warehouse environment while partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and business leaders to e...
Own database reliability, performance, and availability
Lead administration, monitoring, tuning, and optimization of Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift environments
Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies that meet business SLAs
Own and optimize our AWS-based data warehouse architecture, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
Partner with Data and Analytics teams to support reporting, analytics, and downstream AI use cases
Own database security across platforms, including user access, roles, permissions, encryption, and auditing
Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to ensure compliance with internal standards and external requirements
Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to data access, integrity, and availability
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to align database solutions with product and business needs
Communicate database risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership
Improve reliability through automation, scripting, and proactive monitoring
Leverage modern tooling and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work and improve operational signal
Help drive our database architecture with systems thinking mindset.
Use AI to maintain, scale, and improve our dba operations and archtiecture.
Required Skills & Abilities
You might thrive in this role if you have 7+ years of experience managing production database environments
Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including performance tuning, indexing, and HA/DR
Strong hands-on experience with AWS data warehouse technologies, including Amazon Redshift
Proven experience managing database security, access controls, and permissions in regulated or security-conscious environments
Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Infrastructure, Engineering, and leadership teams
Demonstrated AI fluency and curiosity, with experience using automation or AI-enabled tools to improve reliability, monitoring, or efficiency
Experience with additional AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, monitoring/logging tools)
Exposure to data engineering pipelines or analytics platforms
Qualifications
Experience:
7 years experience
