Senior Data Platform Administrator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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AutoNation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

🚘 Automotive

Insurance • Logistics • Automotive

AutoNation is a leading automotive retailer in the United States, offering a wide range of vehicles, including new and used cars, electric vehicles, and certified pre-owned cars. It provides vehicle financing, protection plans, and insurance solutions. Additionally, AutoNation operates service centers offering maintenance and repair services, as well as collision centers. The company emphasizes convenience with features like online scheduling and mobile service options, and it supports charitable causes such as cancer research.

📋 Description

• Own reliability and operational standards across SQL Server, Azure SQL, AWS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, Snowflake, and Delphix • Define and maintain SLI/SLO standards, capacity planning practices, and cloud database cost governance models • Lead database migrations and modernization projects, including on-premises-to-cloud transitions, version upgrades, engine consolidations, and platform retirements • Design multi-region high-availability architectures and cross-cloud disaster recovery strategies for tier-1 workloads • Drive cloud database cost optimization through right-sizing, reserved capacity strategy, workload management, and query consolidation • Set standards for performance tuning, troubleshooting, and incident response • Automate routine database operations using PowerShell, Python, and schema migration tooling • Own replication topologies using HVR, AWS DMS, Meltano, and SQL Server native replication • Administer Delphix at the platform level, including engine sizing, dSource strategy, masking design, capacity planning, and API automation • Lead modernization of legacy MS BI workloads including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and SSMDS • Operate Snowflake at architectural depth, including warehouse strategy, RBAC, cost governance, resource monitors, and data sharing • Define database observability standards using AppDynamics, DataDog, DBADash, and custom monitoring • Own database security posture, including encryption, access governance, audit logging, and vulnerability management • Lead compliance control implementation for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or equivalent frameworks • Partner with security teams on hardening, secrets management, and incident response • Mentor administrators, own onboarding curriculum, and develop skills plans • Drive incident postmortems and structural improvements • Partner with data engineering, application engineering, and DevOps teams on cross-functional initiatives • Evaluate emerging technologies and produce recommendations and proof-of-concept implementations

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of database administration experience across multiple platforms, with significant time at the senior individual contributor level • Expert-level SQL Server engineering, including FCI, Always-On Availability Groups, Extended Events, Query Store, advanced performance tuning, In-Memory OLTP, and Resource Governor • SQL Server plus at least two cloud-native databases in production: Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, or DynamoDB • Proven experience leading production-scale database migration or modernization initiatives; 10TB+ preferred • Deep performance tuning skills across OLTP and operational analytics workloads, including execution plan internals, storage engine behavior, and concurrency control • Operational expertise with Snowflake, including warehouse architecture, RBAC design, and cost governance • Hands-on expertise with Delphix at architectural depth • Operational expertise with SSIS, SSRS, SSAS (Tabular and Multidimensional), and SSMDS • Production experience with replication and CDC: HVR, AWS DMS, Meltano, or SQL Server native replication • Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell and Python • Working knowledge of Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent IaC • Demonstrated mentorship and standards-setting at a team level • Working knowledge of SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or equivalent compliance frameworks • Ability to influence architecture direction and cross-team engineering strategy • Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship by the Company • Preferred: multi-region or multi-cloud DR architectures, Kubernetes-hosted database workloads or operators, public technical community presence, regulated industry experience, Delta Lake or Iceberg, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and 401k matching • Insurance plans (health, dental, vision) • Maternity benefits • Associate purchase and discount programs for new and pre-owned vehicles, services, parts, collision, accessories, and AutoGear • Discounts through YouDecide, a website with offers from top providers and retailers • DRVPNK mission and opportunities to support cancer research and treatment with cancer charities nationwide