# Lead Database & Data Platform Engineer

Own the database and data estate end to end: assess what we have, run a time-critical upgrade as the first job, and then set the direction and standards that mature the whole environment The company is the product of a merger, so we run two stacks - C#/.NET on Microsoft SQL Server, and TypeScript/JavaScript on MySQL - both in AWS Our SQL Server is BYOL on EC2: we install, configure, and operate it ourselves, an on-premise setup that happens to live in AWS. MySQL runs on RDS First 90 days Assess the current estate: inventory, backup and recovery posture, high availability configuration, monitoring and alerting gaps, access model, capacity, and cost. Produce a written state-of-the-estate and a prioritized remediation plan Near-term priority Upgrade the Windows Server OS hosting our production SQL Server estate - Windows Server 2016 → 2022 - across an Always On Availability Group cluster, with no data loss and minimal downtime. Must do before the end of 2026 Then upgrade the SQL Server version from our current SQL Server 2017, and own the recommendation on whether we stay self-managed on EC2 or move to AWS RDS managed SQL Server after the upgrade. Core ownership Full ownership of admi

- **Id**: 1042623
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/strider-lead-database-data-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: BR
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T20:13:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:25:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3760
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 702595
- **Name**: Strider
- **Domain**: onstrider.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/strider-3>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 52000
- **Max usd**: 119000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 771

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Metabase** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Windows Server** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T20:13:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.513
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:27, agency, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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