Senior Cloud DBA – AWS

Want to be a bswifter? 

At bswift we’ve been transforming benefits administration since 1996, making it simpler, smarter, and more human. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based technology and services empower employees to understand, manage, and love their benefits. From downtown Chicago, and remotely across the country, we serve thousands of companies and millions of people nationwide, reducing administrative burdens and freeing HR teams to focus on creating thriving, people-first workplaces. 

 We’re looking for motivated and goal-driven individuals who share our passion for delivering excellence and creating solutions that make a difference. The reward is a fun, flexible and creative environment with ample opportunity for professional and personal growth. If you love the bswift values of pursue excellence, embrace accountability, deliver superior service, and be a great place to work, we want to hear from you! 

 

ABOUT US:

bswift is a leading benefits administration company that specializes in providing tailored solutions for our clients. Our mission is to simplify the complex world of employee benefits and deliver exceptional service to our clients. We are looking for a talented and experienced individual to join our team as a Senior Database Administrator (Senior DBA).

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The Senior Database Administrator will support, elevate, and modernize bswift’s data platforms. This role blends deep Microsoft SQL Server expertise with cloud‑native architecture, automation, and engineering practices on AWS. You will own the reliability, performance, security, and evolution of our database ecosystem while driving modernization initiatives toward scalable, automated, cloud‑native architectures. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role partnering closely with Engineering, DevOps, Analytics, and Security teams to deliver resilient and cost‑efficient data solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR (Essential Functions):

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Cloud & Platform Architecture and Strategy

• Design, implement, and operate scalable cloud‑native data platforms on AWS, including RDS SQL Server, MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.
• Automate infrastructure and database operations using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting (PowerShell, SQL Agent) to reduce manual processes and improve reliability.

Database Administration & Operations

• Own day‑to‑day administration of SQL Server 2019+ environments, ensuring performance, availability, scalability, and security.
• Architect and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions, including multi‑AZ designs, replication, automated backups, point‑in‑time recovery, and failover testing.
• Perform core DBA activities including backups, environment refreshes, data de‑identification, disaster recovery readiness, index maintenance, and statistics management.
• Proactively tune and optimize database performance through query analysis, indexing strategies, execution plan review, and monitoring.
• Participate in on‑call rotation via PagerDuty and respond to production database alerts and incidents.

Modernization & Data Engineering Enablement

• Provide database expertise to support cloud‑native data pipelines, ensuring efficient SQL performance, sound schema design, and high data quality.
• Modernize and optimize database platforms by implementing ELT/ETL workflows and scalable ingestion strategies.
• Define and enforce standards for observability, security, and compliance, including encryption, RBAC, auditing, data masking, monitoring, and alerting.

Reliability, Security & Cost Optimization

• Ensure platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance baselining.
• Optimize cloud costs through lifecycle management, storage tiering, archival strategies, and rightsizing database resources.
• Partner with Security, DevOps, and Engineering teams to implement least‑privilege access and secure data handling practices.

Technical Leadership

• Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor on database and data platform decisions.
• Document architecture, standards, and best practices; mentor teams and review implementations.
• Own database platforms end‑to‑end, from design and implementation through operations and continuous improvement.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (Required Education