Technical Lead DBA
Core
Provide technical leadership for the design, operation, and evolution of enterprise database platforms, leading complex initiatives from architecture to production support.
Role type
Senior IC Technical Lead DBA
Builds
Enterprise database platforms, security technologies, and AI-assisted engineering solutions
Domain
Security technology, law enforcement, national security, and intelligence agencies
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Database administration, performance tuning, high availability, backup & recovery, troubleshooting, Linux, automation, Python, Bash, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, CockroachDB, ClickHouse, Sybase ASE / IQ, Elasticsearch / OpenSearch, Kubernetes, DevOps, CI/CD
Preferred skills
Distributed systems, large-scale production environments
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for the design, operation, and evolution of enterprise database platforms; Lead complex database initiatives from architecture and planning through deployment and production support; Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence across the team; Define best practices, standards, automation strategies, and operational processes; Collaborate with Product, Architecture, R&D, DevOps, and customer-facing teams; Lead investigations of critical performance, scalability, availability, and data integrity challenges; Drive technology evaluations, migrations, modernization efforts, and POCs.
