Title Database Administrator Location Charlotte NC 28217 (Hybrid) Type Long Term Contract Need Independent Candidates on W2 Only Must Have Skills Postgres SQL MSSQL Database monitoring tools CloudWatch Zabbix Dynatrace Datadog Fog light Job Description • Hands-on experience with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL MSSQL and Amazon RDS. • Experience building and supporting large-scale high-transaction database environments. • Strong expertise in database performance tuning optimization and deep-dive analysis. • Hands-on experience configuring supporting and tuning PostgreSQL databases. • Knowledge of database backup and recovery strategies. • Ability to write and debug Shell and Python scripts. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with business teams technical teams and senior management. • Manage database platforms to ensure high availability and performance including start stop restart failover operations and replication-lag monitoring on replica nodes. • Perform daily health checks for disk CPU memory utilization and PostgreSQL logs using AI-driven automation where applicable. • Perform on-demand backup and restoration activities including table- and schema-level backups. • Identify long running and repetitive queries run execution plans and share findings with the development team for further analysis. • Perform basic user and access management. • Troubleshoot infrastructure performance and availability issues. • Provide basic query and performance support. • Monitor weekend job alerts troubleshoot issues and escalate to the Compass SME as per SOP. • Perform database refresh activities during weekends. • Participate in planned maintenance windows and outage activities and perform database tuning and optimization to meet SLA requirements. • Handle incident management change management and service tasks in accordance with SLA requirements.