SQL Database Administrator II

Postgres, MySQL
UNITED STATES
October 17, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Versant
Location: Florida, United States
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Versant is an industry-changing media and entertainment business home to iconic brands shaping news, sports, and culture. Versant is seeking a SQL Database Administrator II to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of its database environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. In this Level 2 role, you will administer production database systems, support MySQL and PostgreSQL platforms, and partner closely with engineering teams to enhance operations through proactive monitoring, automation, and resilient backup practices.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain availability, health, and operational reliability of database environments across production, staging, and development in accordance with SLAs and RTO/RPO targets.
  • Administer and support relational database platforms including MySQL and PostgreSQL across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Monitor and optimize database performance, execution plans, indexing, and wait statistics to proactively resolve bottlenecks.
  • Strengthen database security posture by implementing least-privilege access and managing encryption, permissions, and audit controls.
  • Design, test, validate, and execute robust backup, restoration, high-availability, and disaster-recovery strategies.
  • Partner with software and data engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle on schema design, query optimization, and automated CI/CD deployments.
  • Build repeatable automation and operational tooling using infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, and scripting languages.
  • Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and operational technical documentation.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on transactional database administration experience in production database environments.
  • Strong database administration expertise across configuration, security, maintenance, backup, recovery, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS database and infrastructure services, particularly RDS, Secrets Manager, S3, and CloudWatch.
  • Deep expertise in performance optimization, query execution plan analysis, index design, and blocking/locking diagnostics.
  • Experience designing and supporting high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions.
  • Working knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL administration, covering configuration, security, monitoring, and backups.
  • Proficiency in SQL and PowerShell scripting for workflow automation.
  • Experience with Git, database CI/CD deployment workflows, and observability platforms such as Datadog or Prometheus.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • Scripting experience with Python or Bash.
  • Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL hosted in AWS managed services such as Amazon RDS or Aurora.
  • Experience managing and tuning heterogeneous database platforms.
  • Experience building infrastructure-as-code or automated database provisioning workflows.

Benefits & Perks

  • Remote work flexibility based in Florida with occasional in-person collaboration opportunities.
  • Comprehensive health, medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Retirement plans, paid time off, and equitable compensation programs.

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