Cloud Database Administrator
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Columbia, IN - USA
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$ 140 - 160
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Job Summary
Position Title: Cloud Database Administrator (DBA)
Reports Directly To: Director of IT Operations
Location: Remote / Hybrid Columbia MD
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Risk Designation: High
Job Summary
CRISP Shared Services (CSS) serves as the technology partner for health information exchange (HIE) organizations in Maryland DC West Virginia Connecticut Alaska Virginia Kentucky Florida and other jurisdictions. CSS facilitates the electronic transfer of clinical and public health information to positively impact the healthcare system through improved patient care and outcomes reduced costs and data-driven understanding of regional public health concerns.
The Cloud Database Administrator (DBA) will serve as the primary owner and steward of our cloud database platforms. This role will be responsible for the reliability performance security cost efficiency and governance of databases supporting businesscritical and healthcare applications. CSS maintains a significant amount of Protected Health Information (PHI) across Azure SQL PostgreSQL Cosmos DB and Azure Storage services. The Cloud DBA will design and operate secure highly available and compliant database platforms while partnering closely with IT and development teams to enable scalable application growth. This role blends handson technical leadership with strategic ownershipestablishing standards driving automation and evolving the database platform as CSS continues to scale in the cloud.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions include but are not limited to the following below. Other duties may be assigned.
Database Platform Ownership
Serve as the primary owner for the design implementation and ongoing operation of cloud database platforms across the organization
Define and maintain database standards best practices and operational procedures.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on database architecture and service selection
Cloud Database Administration
Implement administer and maintain Azure SQL PostgreSQL Cosmos DB and Azure Storage data stores in a primarily PaaS-based Azure environment
Ensure database availability performance scalability and data integrity across all supported systems
Plan and execute database upgrades maintenance and migrations including transitions from IaaS/VM-hosted databases to PaaS services
Security Compliance and Governance
Design and enforce database security controls including environment isolation RBAC encryption at rest and in transit auditing and data masking
Support HIPAA and other regulatory requirements related to PHI/PII including audit readiness and security assessments
Implement and automate data governance and retention policies to support compliance and cost optimization
Backup Disaster Recovery and Reliability
Design implement and regularly test backup restore and disaster recovery strategies to meet defined RPO/RTO requirements.
Establish and maintain high-availability and resiliency patterns appropriate to each database workload.
Performance Monitoring and Cost Optimization
Implement monitoring alerting and performance baselines using Azure-native and/or third-party tools
Lead performance tuning efforts including query optimization indexing strategies and capacity planning
Monitor and optimize database resource usage to control cloud costs through scaling strategies tier selection and automation
Automation & DevOps Integration
Automate database provisioning configuration maintenance and governance processes using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code
Partner with development teams to support and streamline CI/CD workflows schema versioning and controlled database change management
Improve operational efficiency through automation and repeatable deployment patterns
Incident Management & Collaboration
Act as the escalation point for complex database-related incidents and outages.
Perform root cause analysis and post-incident reviews; drive corrective and preventive actions.
Collaborate closely with IT development security and leadership stakeholders to align database strategy with organizational goals
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully the candidate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Strong understanding of database architecture internals and operational best practices
Proven ability to secure and manage databases containing sensitive health data
Detail-oriented with exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Ability to communicate complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience and/or Education Requirements
Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or equivalent experience
5 years of experience in database administration or cloud database engineering roles
3 years of hands-on experience managing cloud databases in Microsoft Azure with a strong emphasis on PaaS services
Demonstrated experience in multi-server cloud database environments and multi-terabyte scale
Demonstrated experience with:
oAzure SQL
oPostgreSQL
o Cosmos DB
o Azure Storage
Strong experience implementing:
o Backup and disaster recovery strategies
o Security controls for PHI/PII
o Monitoring and performance tuning
o Automation via scripting and/or Infrastructure-as-Code
Demonstrable experience identifying and implementing newly released or previously unused database platform features
Preferred Experience
Experience supporting healthcare or regulated environments managing PHI/PII
Familiarity with Databricks and data analytics workloads
Experience -based application environments
Exposure to Terraform Bicep ARM templates PowerShell or Azure DevOps
Prior experience acting as the lead or sole DBA for an organization or platform
Familiarity with modern vectorization techniques storage and service solutions to support RAG and full text search product functionality
Compensation
Targeted base salary: $140k - $160k per year based on experience and qualifications plus benefits and bonuses.
CRISP Shared Services Inc. and Dynamed Solutions LLC are equal opportunity employers. This means that CRISP Shared Services Inc. and Dynamed Solutions LLC are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age marital status genetic information disability military or veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.
Reports Directly To: Director of IT Operations
Location: Remote / Hybrid Columbia MD
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Risk Designation: High
Job Summary
CRISP Shared Services (CSS) serves as the technology partner for health information exchange (HIE) organizations in Maryland DC West Virginia Connecticut Alaska Virginia Kentucky Florida and other jurisdictions. CSS facilitates the electronic transfer of clinical and public health information to positively impact the healthcare system through improved patient care and outcomes reduced costs and data-driven understanding of regional public health concerns.
The Cloud Database Administrator (DBA) will serve as the primary owner and steward of our cloud database platforms. This role will be responsible for the reliability performance security cost efficiency and governance of databases supporting businesscritical and healthcare applications. CSS maintains a significant amount of Protected Health Information (PHI) across Azure SQL PostgreSQL Cosmos DB and Azure Storage services. The Cloud DBA will design and operate secure highly available and compliant database platforms while partnering closely with IT and development teams to enable scalable application growth. This role blends handson technical leadership with strategic ownershipestablishing standards driving automation and evolving the database platform as CSS continues to scale in the cloud.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions include but are not limited to the following below. Other duties may be assigned.
Database Platform Ownership
Serve as the primary owner for the design implementation and ongoing operation of cloud database platforms across the organization
Define and maintain database standards best practices and operational procedures.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on database architecture and service selection
Cloud Database Administration
Implement administer and maintain Azure SQL PostgreSQL Cosmos DB and Azure Storage data stores in a primarily PaaS-based Azure environment
Ensure database availability performance scalability and data integrity across all supported systems
Plan and execute database upgrades maintenance and migrations including transitions from IaaS/VM-hosted databases to PaaS services
Security Compliance and Governance
Design and enforce database security controls including environment isolation RBAC encryption at rest and in transit auditing and data masking
Support HIPAA and other regulatory requirements related to PHI/PII including audit readiness and security assessments
Implement and automate data governance and retention policies to support compliance and cost optimization
Backup Disaster Recovery and Reliability
Design implement and regularly test backup restore and disaster recovery strategies to meet defined RPO/RTO requirements.
Establish and maintain high-availability and resiliency patterns appropriate to each database workload.
Performance Monitoring and Cost Optimization
Implement monitoring alerting and performance baselines using Azure-native and/or third-party tools
Lead performance tuning efforts including query optimization indexing strategies and capacity planning
Monitor and optimize database resource usage to control cloud costs through scaling strategies tier selection and automation
Automation & DevOps Integration
Automate database provisioning configuration maintenance and governance processes using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code
Partner with development teams to support and streamline CI/CD workflows schema versioning and controlled database change management
Improve operational efficiency through automation and repeatable deployment patterns
Incident Management & Collaboration
Act as the escalation point for complex database-related incidents and outages.
Perform root cause analysis and post-incident reviews; drive corrective and preventive actions.
Collaborate closely with IT development security and leadership stakeholders to align database strategy with organizational goals
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully the candidate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Strong understanding of database architecture internals and operational best practices
Proven ability to secure and manage databases containing sensitive health data
Detail-oriented with exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Ability to communicate complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience and/or Education Requirements
Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or equivalent experience
5 years of experience in database administration or cloud database engineering roles
3 years of hands-on experience managing cloud databases in Microsoft Azure with a strong emphasis on PaaS services
Demonstrated experience in multi-server cloud database environments and multi-terabyte scale
Demonstrated experience with:
oAzure SQL
oPostgreSQL
o Cosmos DB
o Azure Storage
Strong experience implementing:
o Backup and disaster recovery strategies
o Security controls for PHI/PII
o Monitoring and performance tuning
o Automation via scripting and/or Infrastructure-as-Code
Demonstrable experience identifying and implementing newly released or previously unused database platform features
Preferred Experience
Experience supporting healthcare or regulated environments managing PHI/PII
Familiarity with Databricks and data analytics workloads
Experience -based application environments
Exposure to Terraform Bicep ARM templates PowerShell or Azure DevOps
Prior experience acting as the lead or sole DBA for an organization or platform
Familiarity with modern vectorization techniques storage and service solutions to support RAG and full text search product functionality
Compensation
Targeted base salary: $140k - $160k per year based on experience and qualifications plus benefits and bonuses.
CRISP Shared Services Inc. and Dynamed Solutions LLC are equal opportunity employers. This means that CRISP Shared Services Inc. and Dynamed Solutions LLC are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age marital status genetic information disability military or veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.
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