Manager Database Administrator - AWS Redshift
First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
Summary :
As a Manager DBA - Redshift, you'll lead the AWS Redshift Platform team, driving technical strategy, platform reliability, scalability, cost optimization, and stakeholder management for the enterprise and departmental Redshift environments.
In this role, you'll provide People-focused leadership to a high-performing Engineering Team while driving the delivery of scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based data solutions built on modern AWS technologies and DevOps practices.
Requirements :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems with relevant experience of 10 to 16 years.
- Strong experience in People leadership, performance management, stakeholder management, leading and scaling the teams and providing work direction.
- Must have experience in AWS Redshift - Platform ownership, architecture, and roadmap accountability.
- Deep expertise in Amazon Redshift including Server less, Spectrum, Data Sharing, Workload Management (WLM), Concurrency Scaling, and performance optimization.
- AWS Cloud - Core AWS services as S3, IAM Identity Center, Athena, Lake Formation, and Lakehouse architecture patterns.
- Lakehouse Architecture - 3 - 5 years - AWS core services and Lakehouse architecture patterns.
- Observability / SRE - Reliability and SRE-oriented thought process for the Redshift platform.
- FinOps / Cost Optimization - Contract management and FinOps practices for the platform.
- SQL - Strong expertise in query optimization, workload management, and performance tuning within large-scale analytics platforms.
- Security & Governance - IAM, encryption, access controls, Lake Formation permissions, Identity Centre, and compliance-oriented platform management.
- Python - Working knowledge for platform automation, observability, and operational tooling.
- Infrastructure Automation - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.
- Stakeholder Management - 5 years - translating business needs into platform capabilities and executive communication of platform value/risk.
Skills
SQL, AWS, Data Warehousing, Redshift, DataLake, DBA, DBMS, Cloud, DB