Database Administrator – Infrastructure

🕒 May 29

🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +33 more states – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📀 Database Administrator

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Mark43

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏛️ Government

🔒 Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence • Government • Cybersecurity

Mark43 is the trusted leader in public safety technology, providing a secure, all-in-one platform for agencies to save time, stay compliant, and ensure community safety. Through innovative AI-powered tools and a modern cloud-native infrastructure, Mark43 empowers public safety agencies to enhance their operational efficiency, conduct instant reporting, and share real-time data. Designed specifically for first responders, Mark43 supports law enforcement and other public safety agencies in their mission to serve and protect communities.

📋 Description

• Own and improve the reliability, performance, security, and scalability of production database systems. • Lead database monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery practices. • Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex database performance and availability issues. • Partner with engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and safe database change management. • Lead technical planning for database migrations, upgrades, scaling strategies, and operational improvements. • Improve infrastructure-as-code, automation, observability, and repeatability across database operations. • Define and maintain database runbooks, operational standards, and production readiness criteria. • Participate in and, when appropriate, lead database-related incident response, post-incident reviews, and remediation planning. • Collaborate with security, compliance, and delivery teams to meet customer, regulatory, and vetting requirements. • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, DBAs, and operational teams. • Represent database reliability concerns in architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and customer-readiness discussions. • Help build the operational foundation required to support UK police customers and future UK public safety partners.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant professional experience administering MySQL or similar relational databases in production environments. • Deep experience operating cloud-hosted database platforms, preferably AWS RDS, Aurora, or Azure database services. • Strong expertise in database performance tuning, query optimization, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability. • Experience designing and operating database infrastructure for complex cloud-based software applications. • Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, observability, and production operations. • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, access controls, and operational risk. • Ability to influence engineering teams and guide database design decisions across services. • Strong incident management skills and sound judgment during high-pressure production events. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences. • Demonstrated ability to mentor teammates and improve team-wide technical practices. • Eligibility and willingness to complete UK police vetting requirements for customer-facing public safety work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Total compensation for this role is market competitive and may include base salary, bonus opportunity, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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