Versana

Database Administrator

New York, NY

No sponsorship$160k-$180kDetected 61 days ago

PythonJavaBashPowerShellGitSQLPostgreSQLAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDDatadogDevOpsCybersecurityAgileCommunication

About the role

You should be comfortable working in modern DevOps and cloud environments using Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform.
You will use Datadog for observability, performance monitoring, and alerting across database and application layers.

Data protection: Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures
regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
Application-centric tuning: Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application's data access layer, using Datadog APM traces to pinpoint slow or inefficient queries in production traffic.
Proactive design partnership: Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape eSicient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies before features ship.
Root-cause remediation: Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring, then work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments that preserve application logic.
Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application's data access layer, using Datadog APM traces to pinpoint slow or inefficient queries in production traffic.
Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape eSicient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies before features ship.
Establish and track performance baselines for business-critical queries and implement anomaly detection to prevent regression as new features are released.

5+ years of experience supporting relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform for database changes, automation, and releases.
Proficiency with Datadog (or similar observability tools) for performance monitoring and alerting across database and application layers.
Ability to read and understand Java application code to trace data access patterns.
Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery (replication, failover, RPO/RTO), including regular testing.
Experience implementing database security best practices, including encryption, secrets management, role-based access, and audit logging.
Ability to automate DBA workflows using Python, Bash, or PowerShell (maintenance, backup verification, provisioning, alerting).
Comfort participating in an on-call rotation, leading incident triage, and writing post incident reviews with corrective and preventive actions.
Strong communication skills and the ability to partner eSectively with engineering and infrastructure teams.
Hands-on administration of Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including configuration, upgrades, and parameter tuning.
Strong performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis (EXPLAIN), indexing strategy, query rewrites, and diagnosing locking/contention.

Hands-on administration of Oracle Database including installation, configuration, upgrades, parameter tuning, and backups using RMAN.
Experience with distributed databases, such as CockroachDB.
Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes Nice to have:
Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes. **Visa sponsorship is not available for this role at this time**
Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes

Read and understand Java code to trace data access patterns and ensure tuning aligns with how the application interacts with the database.

Monitor database health, performance, and capacity across Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.

Nice to have: • Hands-on administration of Oracle Database including installation, configuration, upgrades, parameter tuning, and backups using RMAN. • Experience with distributed databases, such as CockroachDB. • Experience managing databa

This listing is sourced directly from Versana's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.