Senior Database Administrator
Darbydale, OH · HybridJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Senior Database Administrator supports databases for production applications, software development, and application maintenance projects. The role administers MySQL and PostgreSQL databases in AWS, manages database security, lifecycle processes, backups, and performance, and provides guidance to application teams and stakeholders. Candidates local to the DMV area may be required to follow a hybrid schedule.
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Why Karsun? Join Karsun Solutions to grow your career with the company transforming possible for the US Government. At Karsun, collaboration drives our community. We're committed to building an environment where team members from diverse backgrounds can innovate, learn and grow with us. Here at Karsun, the only limit to your potential is the limit of your curiosity. Join Team Karsun, and Find Your Next! Summary As a Senior Database Administrator, you will provide services for databases that support the customer's production applications, software development, and application maintenance projects. Candidates local to the DMV area may be required to adhere to a hybrid schedule. What You'll Be Doing: - Provide database administration to RDS MySQL and PostgreSQL databases engines within the AWS Cloud environment. - Install, configure, and maintain database instances, including managing RDS Parameter Groups, Option Groups and coordinating engine version upgrades/patches. - Manage database security and user permissions and privileges in accordance with application/database requirements including IAM Database authentication, VPC security groups and user permissions/privileges. - Develop and/or maintain database objects (tables, views, indexes) and optimize Vacuum (Postgres) or Buffer Pool (MySQL) settings. - Monitor and optimize database performance and tuning - Manage and ensure compliance with database backup strategies - Customer support to database and associated application development team, owners, and user stakeholders - Maintain Database Lifecycle Management processes detailed by customer specifications - Provide impact information on proposed changes to application and it's database structure - Provide schedule and resource requirements to stakeholders concerning proposed changes to the application and associated database - Provide sizing recommendations for any new databases or changes to existing databases, including user/data growth projection and the impact on the server memory and performance characteristics - Participate in meetings with Solution Delivery Service staff and stakeholders - Work with other database administrators to ensure optimal efficiency and optimization of databases, server clusters, replications, back-up strategies, and database services to customer and its customers. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other IT degree; Engineering, math, and/or science degrees are acceptable substitute degrees - Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience - Expertise in MySQL (v5.7, 8.0) and/or PostgreSQL (v12-16) administration in an enterprise environment - Significant experience with Amazon RDS or Aurora managed services. - Deep understanding of Linux-based database environments and open-source database internals. - Experience in Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) - Experience in Data Scrubbing, Data Masking, Data Compare and Review. - Experience in improving Database user / systems authentication robustness. - AWS and/or Azure experience - Relevant certification - The ability to successfully obtain and maintain a U.S. Suitability/Public Trust Background Clearance Preferred Qualifications: Experience: Operating in traditional and agile project models Experience with PostgreSQL extensions (e.g., PostGIS, pg_stat_statements) or MySQL storage engines. Knowledge of High Availability architectures (RDS Multi-AZ) and Global Databases. Setup and maintenance of AWS KMS encryption at rest and SSL/TLS in transit. Proficiency with AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) an
How this job compares
Set against the 783 open Database Administrator jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$102–150K/yr542 salary ranges
- US median$50–60/hr46 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 23 open Database Administrator jobs in Ohio and 783 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Database Administrator postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 643 postings).
- Education
- 224 of the 783 open Database Administrator jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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