Senior Database Administrator – Postgres, MySQL

🕒 September 30

🌐 United States, India – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Experity is the leading software and services company for on-demand healthcare in the U. S. urgent care market, providing an integrated operating system complete with electronic medical record, practice management, patient engagement, billing, teleradiology, business intelligence, and consulting solutions. Fifty percent of the U. S. urgent care market runs on Experity solutions. With Experity, providers can best meet the demands of the evolving on-demand space and deliver high-quality, high-velocity care by streamlining operations, improving patient experiences, and optimizing revenue.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, optimize, and support Experity’s cloud-native database platforms, primarily Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL on AWS RDS • Deploy, configure, and manage PostgreSQL and MySQL databases in AWS RDS and Aurora environments • Configure MySQL parameter groups, option groups, backups, snapshots, and maintenance windows • Architect and support high-availability solutions using clusters, read replicas, Multi-AZ deployments, writer/reader endpoints, and read scaling • Monitor and mitigate replication lag • Tune database-specific parameters and optimize Aurora storage, I/O patterns, autovacuum behavior, and checkpoint settings • Optimize indexing, query execution plans, and MySQL InnoDB configuration • Monitor and troubleshoot performance using AWS CloudWatch, DataDog, and database-native tools • Investigate and resolve production issues involving locking, blocking, replication lag, and connection saturation • Implement backup and recovery strategies, including PITR, automated snapshots, and cross-region resilience • Partner with engineering teams on schema design, query patterns, and database access efficiency • Drive observability practices involving alerting, logging, and performance metrics • Optimize cloud database cost and performance • Support database migrations and modernization efforts • Automate database provisioning and operations using Infrastructure-as-Code and scripting • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement • Support MySQL upgrades, patching, and migrations with minimal downtime • Provide technical leadership, influence architecture decisions, mentor team members, and drive operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience • Minimum 5 years of database administration experience • 3+ years focused on PostgreSQL in high-volume OLTP production environments • 2+ years administering MySQL in production, preferably on AWS RDS • Strong hands-on experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and AWS RDS MySQL • Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including query planner, indexing, vacuuming, WAL, and replication • Strong understanding of MySQL architecture, including InnoDB storage engine, replication, indexing, and query optimization • Proven expertise in database performance tuning and troubleshooting in high-availability, high-throughput environments • Experience supporting systems with significant transaction volume (e.g., 100–200+ TPS) and scaling for continued growth • Experience troubleshooting locking, blocking, connection saturation, and long-running transactions • Experience with AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3 • Experience with DataDog and CloudWatch • Experience designing and supporting High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions • Strong understanding of relational database design and data modeling • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools and scripting languages such as Python or Bash • Experience operating in a production SaaS or high-transaction environment • Demonstrated ownership and accountability for production systems • Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach • Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and operations teams • Clear and effective communication in technical and non-technical contexts • Continuous process, performance, and reliability improvement mindset

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