Sr Database Administrator

Position Summary 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 Disney’s premier vacation brands, including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. The Senior Database Administrator reports to the Manager, Database Operations and is part of the TechOps, Quality & Systems Engineering (TQSE) team, partnering across multiple lines of business—including applications, Disney Signature Experiences, and Disney Cruise Line—to support enterprise‑wide initiatives. Responsibilities Build, deploy, and ensure 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. Provide oversight and direction to junior team members. Build relationships with engineering teams and leads. Required Education, Experience, Skills, and 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 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 proactively identifying problems and designing solutions to 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. Works independently with little coaching or guidance from others. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, software, electrical or electronics engineering, or a 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 support replication and migration use cases. Understanding of and experience with Linux operating systems, networking, and containers. Comfortable being a go‑to resource for all database‑related issues raised by 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). Compensation and Benefits The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $111,900.00 – $150,000.00 per year. Base pay may vary based on internal equity, geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be included, along with a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits. 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