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With complete prescription pairs starting under $10, Zenni offers adults and children the freedom to see clearly and express themselves through a wide selection of high-quality prescription glasses, sunglasses, protective eyewear, and non-prescription frames - curated with fashion, function, and style in mind. \nBased in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zenni has redefined the traditional retail model, emerging as the premier destination for online eyewear in the United States while surpassing 70 million frames sold globally.\nZenni is proud to be the Official Eyewear of the San Francisco 49ers, Columbus Crew, Monster Jam, WWE, Team Liquid, and more. Zenni has collaborated with designers and tastemakers on exclusive collections, including Chase Stokes and George and Claire Kittle. For more information, visit zenni.com.\nPosition Overview\nThe Database Administrator (DBA) at Zenni Optical is responsible for maintaining, securing, monitoring, and optimizing the company's databases across on-premises and cloud environments. This role ensures the availability, performance, integrity, and security of production databases that support critical business applications, reporting, and operational workflows.\nThe ideal candidate has hands-on experience with database administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, and Linux system administration. The DBA will work closely with IT infrastructure, application development, DevOps, and data analytics teams to maintain reliable database operations, improve operational efficiency through automation, and support business continuity.\nThis position requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional who can independently manage routine database operations, troubleshoot production issues, document technical procedures, and contribute to continuous improvements in database reliability, security, and scalability.\nOnsite Schedule\nHybrid (Novato, CA): 2 days in office (Monday and Wednesday), 3 days remote\nOn-Call Responsibilities\nOn-call rotation every other week, supporting onsite servers\nAd-hoc support for the team as needed\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Database Administration and Performance Optimization\nDatabase Installation and Maintenance: Install, configure, upgrade, and patch database software across on-premises and cloud environments while minimizing service interruptions.\nPerformance Monitoring and Tuning: Monitor database health, analyze slow queries and execution plans, identify resource bottlenecks, and implement performance improvements.\nReplication and High Availability: Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot database replication to maintain data consistency and support business continuity.\nBackup and Recovery: Maintain scheduled backups, validate backup integrity, and perform periodic recovery tests to ensure databases can be restored when needed.\nProduction Support: Investigate and resolve database incidents, connectivity issues, performance degradation, and replication failures in a timely manner.\nCapacity Planning: Monitor database growth, storage utilization, CPU, memory, and other resource metrics to identify potential capacity issues before they affect production services.\n2. Database and Linux System Administration\nLinux Administration: Perform routine Linux server administration, including system monitoring, patching, log analysis, disk management, and basic troubleshooting.\nDatabase Access Management: Create and manage database accounts, roles, and permissions in accordance with least-privilege principles.\nSecurity Hardening: Apply database and operating system security best practices, maintain secure configurations, and address identified vulnerabilities.\nRoutine Maintenance: Perform database maintenance tasks, including index optimization, statistics updates, log management, and storage cleanup, as appropriate for each database platform.\n3. Automation and Operational Monitoring\nTask Automation: Develop and maintain scripts using Bash, Python, or similar tools to automate repetitive database administration and maintenance tasks.\nMonitoring and Alerting: Configure and maintain monitoring for database availability, performance, replication status, backup completion, storage capacity, and critical service health using tools such as Zabbix.\nIncident Prevention: Analyze monitoring data and recurring incidents to identify root causes and recommend corrective or preventive actions.\nOperational Efficiency: Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve consistency, and streamline routine database operations through automation.\n4. Cloud Database and DevOps Support\nCloud Database Operations: Support the deployment, migration, monitoring, and maintenance of databases in cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP.\nCloud Database Services: Assist with managing cloud-native database services and database instances hosted on cloud virtual machines.\nData Pipeline Support: Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to troubleshoot database connectivity, access, performance, and data availability issues affecting Fivetran, Databricks, and related data workflows.\nDevelopment and Deployment Support: Work with application development and DevOps teams to support database schema changes, deployment activities, and version-controlled database updates.\n5. Database Security and Change Management\nData Protection: Implement and maintain appropriate encryption, authentication, access controls, and secure database configurations.\nAccess Reviews: Conduct periodic reviews of database accounts and privileges, remove unnecessary access, and investigate suspicious or unauthorized activity.\nPatch and Vulnerability Management: Track database and operating system vulnerabilities and coordinate timely remediation in accordance with company security requirements.\nChange Control: Follow established change-management procedures for database upgrades, configuration changes, maintenance, and production deployments.\nRisk Mitigation: Prepare and validate implementation steps, rollback procedures, and recovery plans before performing changes that could affect production systems.\n6. Documentation and Cross-Functional Collaboration\n Technical Documentation: Create and maintain database inventories, architecture diagrams, configuration records, standard operating procedures (SOPs), troubleshooting guides, and recovery procedures.\nKnowledge Sharing: Document recurring issues and resolutions to improve team knowledge and operational consistency.\nCross-Functional Support: Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, development, and business teams to resolve database-related issues and support business requirements.\nProject Participation: Contribute to database migrations, platform upgrades, infrastructure improvements, monitoring initiatives, and other IT projects.\nStatus Reporting: Provide timely updates on incidents, maintenance activities, project progress, and identified risks.\nQualifications and Requirements\nRequired Qualifications\n3-5 years of experience in database administration, database operations, or a related IT role.\nHands-on experience administering at least one major relational database platform, such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or MariaDB.\nWorking knowledge of SQL, query analysis, indexing, execution plans, and database performance troubleshooting.\nExperience with database backups, recovery procedures, replication, and production database maintenance.\nPractical experience with Linux server administration and command-line troubleshooting on CentOS, Ubuntu, or other related Linux distributions.\nUnderstanding of database security, user and permission management, encryption, and vulnerability remediation.\nExperience using monitoring tools to track database availability, performance, and resource utilization.\nBasic scripting experience with Bash, Python, PowerShell, PHP, or a similar language.\nStrong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.\nAbility to manage assigned tasks independently, prioritize production issues, and collaborate effectively across technical teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience managing and supporting databases in on-prem and cloud environments, particularly AWS or GCP.\nHands-on experience with database monitoring and alerting tools, such as Zabbix.\nFamiliarity with Pervasive PSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB database administration and maintenance.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD workflows, Git-based version control, and database schema migration practices.\nExperience supporting data integration and analytics platforms, including Fivetran and Databricks.\nUnderstanding of high availability, disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).\nRelevant certifications in database administration, cloud platforms, Linux system administration, or related technologies are a plus.\n\nBonus Qualifications\nJava\nU.S. Perks & Benefits:\nAnnual Bonus Program\nHealthcare: 100% premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision for employees (50% for dependents)\nBasic Life and AD&D with option for additional voluntary coverage\nShort and long term disability coverage\n401k with up to 4% match\nEAP and Spring Health that gives you and dependents access to free therapy and coaching\nFree access for you and your family to our digital wellness platform - Wellness Coach\nFTO (Flex Time Off) in addition to our Week of Zen - the time between Christmas and New Year’s to relax and recuperate\nFully Paid Parental Leave - 16 weeks for birthing and non-birthing parents\nFamily forming & fertility support and services through Maven\nAnnual Zenni Gift Card - to use towards our products!\nCompensation\nIn addition to other forms of compensation like perks and benefits, the estimated range for this role is $77,000 - $121,000 USD. The final offer will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skill set, experience, geographical location, market conditions, and other organizational needs. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, or revisit the salary range for various reasons including business needs.\nAt Zenni Optical, people remain the heart of our mission, even as we embrace technology that moves us forward. While we recognize the immense promise of AI, we are equally mindful of its limitations and use these tools strictly to assist our Talent Acquisition team rather than replace human judgment. We utilize AI tools as a collaborative partner to create content-such as job descriptions, interview questions, and outreach messaging-and review resumes, but we maintain a firm commitment to human-led hiring where AI never makes a final decision. Every selection is determined by a member of our team to ensure every candidate is personally valued by a human rather than an algorithm.\nWe look forward to hearing from you!\nWe strive to build a diverse team of individuals with a broad range of experience and perspectives. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t feel you meet all the qualifications.\nZenni Optical is an equal opportunity workplace and considers applications without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. 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