Sr Database Administrator

Job Description

Your New Role...
As the Database Administrator (DBA) you will collaborate with software application developers, security teams and other partners to drive on various initiatives while reporting to the manager of DevOps. You will be responsible for maintaining the integrity and performance of the company databases while driving continuous improvement and best practices across the organization to ensure a solid AWS-based database solution set.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• Design, build, test, and maintain our AWS RDS infrastructure
• Create, maintain, and participate in active monitoring of said infrastructure
• Partner and collaborate with the Senior DBA
• Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline our database implementations
• Triage production issues in collaboration with engineering teams
• Participate in on-call rotations, project planning, code review, and technical design
• Review and isolate SQL bottlenecks
• Drive best practices around database management (schema changes, microservices development, security patching & revision maintenance)
• Design and evangelize DevOps processes for continuous improvements

Qualifications & Experience...
• Strong AWS fundamentals
• Strong hands-on DBA experience in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with highly available (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) implementations for AWS RDS, primarily PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of installing, configuring, designing, patching, archiving and monitoring of DBs along with monitoring and performance understanding.
• Working knowledge of data encryption, PII management and related tools
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of Aurora is a plus
• AWS Security and remediation experience
• Experience with snowflake preferred
• 5+ years' experience as a DBA
• 3+ years' building and maintaining software systems with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• 3+ years' building experience maintaining AWS RDS
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects at once with strong analytical experience pair with the ability to evangelize best practices
• Scripting knowledge a plus (i.e. bash or python)
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent degree in related field or relevant experience

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g61k2n-3-135-198-49-42 in your application.