Enterprise Database Administrator (Cloud Data & Data Mesh)

Location: San Francisco, California 94105, United States

Salary: $187,200–$220,500 per year

Company

hirify.global provides staffing and professional employment opportunities, including technical roles in enterprise data and platform engineering.

What you will do

• Design, install, maintain, upgrade, and monitor databases across development, testing, and production environments.
• Lead reliability initiatives including performance tuning, security audits, backups, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Develop, test, and install stored procedures and functions for secure database access and data maintenance.
• Administer and optimize data mesh infrastructure and Databricks Unity Catalog across multiple workspaces and domains.
• Implement data federation between cloud-native storage and on-premises sources using Starburst/Trino.
• Collaborate with governance teams on access controls, data lineage, and automated migration pipelines.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of professional experience as a Database Administrator in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Amazon RDS, AWS DMS, and SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience administering Databricks Unity Catalog, including metastores, schemas, catalogs, external locations, and role-based access controls.
• Working knowledge of Starburst/Trino, hybrid cloud data connectivity, data mesh principles, S3, ADLS, Delta Lake, and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong communication, attention to detail, calm decision-making during high-stakes deployments, and ownership mentality.

Nice to have

• Experience with REST APIs and automation scripts for programmatic database administration.
• Background in database security, IAM, identity federation, and enterprise metadata management.
• Experience supporting agile, multi-team environments using Scaled Agile Framework methodologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer may include major medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• Statutory sick pay is provided where required.
• Reasonable workplace accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities.
• Employment eligibility may be verified through E-Verify in certain locations.