Sr Database Administrator

This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or open to relocation. At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital- led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney! This role is part of the TechOps, Quality & Systems Engineering (TQSE) team within Disney Experiences Technology, partnering closely with teams across multiple lines of business—including applications, Disney Signature Experiences, and Disney Cruise Line—to support enterprise-wide initiatives. The Senior Database Administrator will report to the Manager, Database Operations. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: * Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DX database infrastructure is available 24/7/365. * Leverage processes and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure. * Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. * Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. * Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing. * Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration. * Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards. * Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security. * Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through Infrastructure as Code and configuration management. * Provide relevant insights into database infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting. * Maintain thorough and well-written documentation. * Participate in live event support and on-call rotation. * Provides oversight and direction to junior team members. * Build relationships with engineering teams and leads. Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: * Must have at least 5 years of related work experience with Relational and NoSQL databases, including experience managing Amazon RDS databases or similar Cloud database-as-a-service deployments. * Must have experience with Oracle AND/OR PostgreSQL * Demonstrated level of understanding of database internals, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration. * Must have experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS. * Excellent verbal and written communication skills. * Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure. * Must have experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and/or Cloud provider tools. * Well-versed in database backup, restore, and recovery strategies * Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues. * Comfortable being a technical resource on complex projects such as upgrades or migrations with multiple stakeholders. * Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation. * Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others. Required Education: * Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics * Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. Preferred Qualifications: * Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role. * Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS and other Cloud providers. * Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). * Replication setup and configuration to optimally support replication and migration use cases. * Understanding of and experience with Linux operating systems, network, and containers. * Comfortable being a go-to resource for all database-related issues raised by our engineering partners. * Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines. * Intermediate or higher level of experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go is a plus. * Experience working in Agile software development. * Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub). * Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef). #DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $111,900.00 - $150,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.