Senior SQL Database Administrator / Senior Database Engineer

Postgres, MySQL
UNITED STATES
October 25, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Zelis
Location: US (Hybrid / Remote)
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $105,000.00 – $133,000.00

About the Role

At Zelis, we are modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We are seeking a Senior Database Engineer / DBA to join our team in a hands-on technical role responsible for the engineering, administration, performance, modernization, and operational reliability of enterprise database platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and on-premises environments. A key priority over the next few years will be modernizing our database estate, including migrating and re-platforming applications from Microsoft SQL Server to strategic platforms such as PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Engineer and Administer Databases: Maintain and support enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments, including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS.
  • Performance Tuning: Perform hands-on database performance engineering, including query tuning, execution plan analysis, schema tuning, index design and optimization, statistics maintenance, and stored procedure optimization.
  • Troubleshoot Production Issues: Resolve production database issues involving performance degradation, blocking, deadlocks, resource contention, CPU, memory, storage, connectivity, and availability.
  • Execute Migrations: Perform hands-on migration and re-platforming of databases and applications from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, handling discovery, compatibility assessment, schema conversion, data migration, and cutover.
  • Maintain High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Configure, maintain, test, and troubleshoot database high availability, backup and restore, disaster recovery, replication, and resiliency capabilities.
  • Automate Infrastructure: Develop and maintain automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for database provisioning, configuration, deployment, maintenance, patching, and upgrades using Git, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Work directly with application engineers to identify and remediate inefficient queries, schemas, indexes, and data access patterns.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Strong Hands-On DBA Experience: Strong hands-on Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL experience in business-critical production environments with a demonstrated ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex database problems.
  • Performance Tuning Expertise: Demonstrated database performance tuning expertise, including execution plan analysis, T-SQL and stored procedure tuning, index optimization, and resolving locking and blocking.
  • Cloud Database Experience: AWS experience is required, with hands-on production experience operating databases on Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and/or Amazon EC2. Experience with PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is strongly preferred.
  • Migration Expertise: Demonstrated experience performing database migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming, specifically moving Microsoft SQL Server workloads to PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
  • Automation & IaC Skills: Demonstrated ability to automate database engineering and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure as Code, along with experience using Git, GitHub, CI/CD, and command-line tooling.
  • Operational Reliability: Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting database monitoring, telemetry, backup and recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience using IDERA, AWS-native observability services, or comparable database monitoring platforms.
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure database platforms, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
  • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or GitHub Copilot to improve troubleshooting and automation.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Comprehensive base salary range of $105,000.00 – $133,000.00 with discretionary bonus plans or other incentives.
  • Flexible paid time off, holidays, and parental leave.
  • 401(k) plan with employer match.
  • Robust health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, and life/disability insurance.

Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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