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About the Role

The Principal Database Administrator will support multiple product teams across Dealer Solutions and play a key role in cloud migration initiatives. This role is responsible for managing, optimizing, and re-architecting the current on-premises database environment, stabilizing and remediating existing database infrastructure, and designing and executing a phased migration to AWS. This position bridges the gap between the current aging, monolithic on-premises database environment and a future-state scalable, cost-efficient, cloud-native database platform. The ideal candidate is a technical leader who serves as the organization's primary database authority, defining database strategy, driving cloud modernization efforts, advising on data architecture, ensuring high availability and security, and leading complex migration, resiliency, and performance initiatives.

Responsibilities

Managing, optimizing, and re-architecting the current on-premises database environment.
Stabilizing and remediating the existing database infrastructure.
Designing and executing a safe, phased migration to AWS.
Defining database strategy.
Driving cloud modernization efforts.
Advising architects and software engineers on data architecture decisions.
Ensuring high availability and security of enterprise platforms.
Leading complex migration, resiliency, and performance initiatives.
Performing logical and physical database design, data modeling, performance management/monitoring, and architecting/building databases from business requirements through planning, testing, and production deployment.
Providing expert-level leadership for Microsoft SQL Server environments.
Driving innovation through implementation across functional teams.
Designing and supporting solutions spanning relational databases and microservice architectures.
Collaborating with software engineers and architects on application and data architecture decisions.
Using observability tools and operational intelligence platforms to proactively monitor database health and drive data-informed operational decisions.
Building and maturing CI/CD practices for database changes.
Mentoring database administrators, influencing architects and developers, reviewing complex technical designs, leading strategic initiatives, and defining the long-term evolution of the database platform.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline with 10+ years of experience in database administration, database engineering, or related technical roles. A Master's degree with 8+ years of experience, a Ph.D. with 5+ years of experience, or 14+ years of directly related experience may also be considered.
Experience in database design, database code development, database administration, and systems engineering to build high-performance, fault-tolerant database systems and infrastructure for database-centric applications.
8+ years of experience with multiple AWS RDS database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL services such as DynamoDB, understanding trade-offs between AWS-managed variants.
Experience supporting 24x7 production systems with strict SLAs and uptime requirements.
Expertise in high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies (clustering, replication, failover, backup/restore strategies) to reduce risk and downtime across critical systems.
Strong background in high-availability/disaster-recovery technologies (e.g., clustering, log shipping, GoldenGate, Always On, replica sets).
8 years of performance tuning, indexing strategies, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.
Ability to design and support solutions spanning relational databases and microservice architectures, selecting the right technology for the right workload.
Strong communication skills translating technical trade-offs for engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working in Agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban, or similar), collaborating within sprint-based delivery cycles.
Must be able to clear a pre-employment drug test (marijuana excluded for this position).
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.

Skills

AWS RDS database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
NoSQL services (DynamoDB)
High-availability and disaster-recovery technologies (clustering, replication, failover, backup/restore strategies)
Microsoft SQL Server environments
Performance tuning
Indexing strategies
Query optimization
Execution plan analysis
Relational databases
Microservice architectures
Observability tools
Operational intelligence platforms
CI/CD practices for database changes
Agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban)

Location

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Principal
Director

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline
Master's degree
Ph.D.

Salary/Compensations

$178,200.00 - $297,000.00

Benefits

Flexible vacation with pay
Seven paid holidays
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually
Bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement planning (401(k))
Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

About the Company

Cox Automotive transforms the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike.
Employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim.
Offers a people-centered atmosphere.
Is a drug-free workplace.

Equal Opportunity

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
EOE, including disability/vets.