Senior Database Administrator

At Collective Health, we’re transforming how employers and their people engage with their health benefits by seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technology, compassionate service, and world-class user experience design.

We're seeking a highly experienced and technically versatile Senior Database Administrator / Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering organization. This critical role demands a blend of hands-on technical mastery, strategic architecture and infrastructure design, and database operational principles. The ideal candidate is an expert in managing, optimizing, and scaling various database technologies, primarily PostgreSQL. Crucially, this person will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and maintaining high-availability database infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including modern systems like AWS RDS/Aurora and GCP AlloyDB/Cloud SQL.
Direct experience within the Health Care Insurance industry is desired.

What you'll do:

• Strategic Planning: Drive the design, deployment, and optimization of highly available, scalable, and secure database solutions across AWS and GCP.
• Data Governance: Ensure all database architectures and operational procedures adhere strictly to regulatory frameworks relevant to the health care insurance industry (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
• Replication & HA: Design and implement advanced MultiSite and cross-region database replication technologies to ensure global read/write availability and meet stringent Disaster Recovery (DR) objectives.
• Migration: Lead complex database migration strategies, including rearchitecting monolithic database systems into manageable databases supporting microservices.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations
  • Automation: Develop robust automation using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Python/Shell scripting for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance.
  • Performance Tuning: Lead advanced performance tuning and optimization efforts for complex SQL queries, database schemas, and cloud instance configurations.
  • Incident Response: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for high-severity database incidents, diagnosing root causes, and implementing SRE-driven long-term solutions.
  • Disaster Recovery (DR): Design, implement, and regularly test comprehensive HA/DR strategies across multi-cloud footprints.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Required Qualifications
  • Experience: 8+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with at least 4 years of experience in a multi-cloud environment and significant exposure to database architecture/design.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Core DB Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in administering, tuning, and maintaining PostgreSQL on AWS and GCP.
  • Cloud Relational and Non-Relational DBs: Significant experience with cloud-native relational database services in AWS (RDS, Aurora) and GCP (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB).
  • Advanced Data Systems: Proven experience with MultiSite database replication technologies.
  • DevOps/IaC: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, particularly Terraform, for managing cloud database resources.
  • Automation: Excellent scripting skills in Python will be highly desired.
  • Security & Compliance: Expertise in database security best practices and ensuring HIPAA compliance at the data layer.
  • Planning: Experience in capacity planning, cost analysis, and justification for the architecture and design proposals.
  • Industry Experience: Direct and significant experience working in the Health Care Insurance industry or another highly regulated environment is highly desired.
  • Soft Skills: Exceptional communication, analytical, and troubleshooting skills, with proven ability to lead and mentor.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Industry Experience: Prior experience in the healthcare IT industry or another highly regulated environment will stand out.
  • Exposure to GCP BiqQuery will be nice to have.
  • Certifications are highly desirable that can demonstrate relevant expertise:
  • AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer
  • PostgreSQL Professional Certification

Pay Transparency Statement 

This is a hybrid position based out of one of our offices: San Francisco, CA, Lehi, UT, or Plano, TX. Hybrid employees are expected to be in the office two days per week.#LI-hybrid 

The actual pay rate offered within the range will depend on factors including geographic location, qualifications, experience, and internal equity. In addition to