Database Administrator
First seen by Alion on Aug 6, 2026.
About the job:
At Lytx, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the Database Infrastructure and Solutions to help support the scalability of our global IoT platform. The Staff Database Administrator is a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of cloud database services that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own day-to-day operations and advanced administration of AWS RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, Redshift and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Configure MCP for Postgres/mysql and leverage AI capabilities to automate DB related tasks.
- Implement database standards, automation, and operational runbooks.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on schema design, indexing, and query tuning.
- Design and maintain automation for provisioning, patching, and monitoring using Terraform and AWS services.
- Implement observability for databases to enable proactive detection of issues.
- Design high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
- Participate in 24x7x365 on-call rotation for production incidents.
- Mentor other Database Administrators and platform engineers.
- Standardize database schema change management using tools such as Liquibase.
- Lead adoption of AI-driven database operations (AIOps) to improve service reliability.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 9 years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator.
- Extensive experience with Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server in a SaaS environment.
- Expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting (Python, Bash).
- Experience in 24x7 operations and incident management.
- Solid understanding of HA/DR patterns and security best practices.
- Experience with schema change management tools (Liquibase).
- Experience with AIOps, observability, and LLM-based assistants for production support.
About Lytx:
At Lytx, our mission is to protect a world in motion. We build technology and partnerships that help keep people safe on the road. Lytx, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills
AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DBA, Aurora CosmoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL