Senior Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator

PayTrace - Remote

*PayTrace by North - Payment and ACH processing, virtual terminals, and more. The* B2B payments expert transforming financial and accounting processes to future-proof your business. With advanced payment automation solutions and a user-friendly API, we help B2B companies become more efficient, successful, and profitable.

The Senior Database Administrator is an essential member of the Technology team, taking ownership of PayTrace’s entire database environment, which includes managing and maintaining production and development databases across multiple platforms. This role requires a highly critical thinker capable of making rapid, well-informed, and independent judgments to support PayTrace’s business-critical systems.Key responsibilities include provisioning, installation, configuration, operation, maintenance, patching, and general support of database systems. This person will also design and architect innovative database solutions, including modernizing the database infrastructure by migrating from MS SQL server to the AWS RDS environment.

What you'll do

* Database Management & Operations: + Create and maintain databases and hosts for Production, Development, and various Test environments. + Ensure database availability and recoverability meet established Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and guidelines. + Rapidly and accurately resolve database issues utilizing all available tools. + Continuously monitor and tune database performance. Ensure integrity and availability of all resources, systems, and key processes, including reviewing logs and verifying that scheduled jobs (e.g., backups) are complete. + Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning. + Available to address production issues which may require evening, overnight, weekend, and holiday work.

* Architecture & Development Support: + Automate system administration with a focus on resource