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Principal Database Administrator

Long Island NY💼 Full-time💰 $178,200–$178,200🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the migration from on-premises monolithic databases to a cloud-native AWS environment, ensuring high availability, security, and performance for enterprise dealer solutions.

Role type

Principal Database Administrator (Technical Lead)

Builds

Cloud-native database platforms, high-performance fault-tolerant systems, and CI/CD pipelines for database changes.

Domain

Automotive / Cloud Infrastructure / Relational & NoSQL Databases

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Database architecture & strategy, AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle), NoSQL (DynamoDB), High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Performance Tuning & Query Optimization, CI/CD for databases, Technical leadership & mentorship, Data modeling.

Preferred skills

Experience with GoldenGate, Always On, replica sets, microservice architectures, observability tools.

Technologies

AWS, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, GoldenGate, Always On

Responsibilities

Design and execute phased migration from on-prem to AWS; define database strategy and advise architects/engineers; ensure high availability and security of enterprise platforms; lead complex migration, resiliency, and performance initiatives; mentor database administrators and review technical designs.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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