Senior Database Administrator

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November 14

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

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🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote

💵 $117k - $143k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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VitalSource

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Education • eCommerce • SaaS

VitalSource is dedicated to transforming digital learning through innovative educational platforms and tools. The company offers a range of solutions designed to provide affordable and accessible course materials, leveraging technologies like smart content creation, digital storefronts, and seamless integrations. VitalSource serves a diverse client base including academic institutions, faculty, corporate learning, and publishers, with a commitment to improving learning outcomes and user engagement through the use of powerful data analytics and learning science. Their platforms, such as Bookshelf and Intrepid, support a global network that prioritizes equitable access and learning personalization.

201 - 500 employees

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Optimize critical systems and collaborate with application teams to drive efficient data usage • Implement robust strategies for scalability, backup, and recovery • Contribute to high-level architectural planning, ensuring data solutions support the company's long-term goals • Monitor and fine-tune database performance; optimize queries, indexes, and caching mechanisms • Manage user access and permissions; implement encryption, authentication, and authorization; regularly audit security configurations • Design and maintain backup strategies; ensure data consistency and integrity • Set up monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus) for proactive issue detection • Investigate and resolve database-related incidents; maintain high uptime through careful planning • Participate as on-call escalation for critical database issues

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of MySQL database administration experience • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience • Prior experience in relational DBMS, NoSQL DBMS, cloud-based relational databases preferred • Certifications such as AWS Certified Database- Specialty or Google Cloud Professional Database Engineer are a plus • 7+ years of experience with relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as MySQL • 5+ years of experience with cloud-based relational databases such as Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, or Aurora • 2+ years of experience with data warehousing solutions such as BigQuery • 5+ years of experience with NoSQL databases, including document-oriented (e.g., MongoDB), key-value stores (e.g., Redis, KeyDB), and search platforms (e.g., ElasticSearch) • 1+ years of experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j) • Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and automation/orchestration tools • Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized database deployments is a plus • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or SQL for automation tasks is preferred • Expertise with database performance tuning, query optimization, and scalability implementation • Expertise in database design and schema management, with the ability to collaborate with developers • Experience in capacity planning, service provisioning, and decommissioning

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous, well-rounded benefits such as Medical, Vision, Dental, Life, Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, FSA, HSA, ID Protection, Pet and Legal Insurance • 401K match up to 5% • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • Use our tuition reimbursement program • Start at 4 weeks’ vacation, 12 sick days, 11 company holidays, and 3 personal days • Flexible work schedules and remote capabilities (by team) • Opportunities for fitness challenges and rewards