Inspira Financial ยท 13 hours ago
Sr. Database Administrator (First Dollar-Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$106K/yr - $134K/yr
7+ years expInspira Financial is a company focused on helping businesses and individuals thrive through health and wealth solutions. The Senior Database Administrator will manage PostgreSQL databases on Google CloudSQL, optimizing performance and ensuring reliability for critical applications while leading initiatives for automation and incident response.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and optimize physical database schemas for PostgreSQL, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance
Lead advanced performance tuning initiatives, including query optimization, indexing strategies, partitioning, and resource management
Planning and implementing database disaster recovery strategy
Analyze and resolve concurrency issues, implementing best practices for locking, isolation levels, and transaction management
Monitor database health, capacity, and performance using GCP-native and third-party tools; proactively address bottlenecks and incidents
Collaborate with engineering teams to support application development, schema changes, and data migrations
Automate routine operational tasks (backups, restores, failover, patching) using scripting and GCP automation tools
Develop and maintain documentation for database architecture, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides
Ensure security, compliance, and data integrity through robust access controls, auditing, and encryption practices
Participate in incident response for database-related issues
Mentor junior DBAs and engineers in best practices for database operations and optimization
Leverage AI Coding assistants such as Claude Code or Copilot to accelerate and enhance productivity
CI/CD pipeline development related to schema and data migrations
Developing Terraform code to support IaC automation
Qualification
Required
7+ years of hands-on experience as a DBA, with at least 3 years focused on PostgreSQL in cloud environments (preferably GCP/CloudSQL)
Expert-level knowledge of PostgreSQL internals, physical schema design, indexing, partitioning, and query optimization
Proven experience resolving concurrency and locking issues in high-transaction environments
Strong proficiency with Google CloudSQL, including configuration, monitoring, and automation
Advanced scripting skills (Python, Bash, Typescript, or similar) for automation and operational efficiency
Experience with backup/recovery strategies, high availability, and disaster recovery in cloud-native architectures
Familiarity with security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and auditing
Experience with multi-tenant databases
Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
Infrequent travel (10%)
Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
Prolonged periods of computer work
Preferred
Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform HCL and CDKTF)
Google Database Engineer certification and Terraform Associate certification
Benefits
Healthcare
401K savings plan
Company holidays
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Company
Inspira Financial
Inspira Financial is your devoted health, wealth, retirement, and benefits administrator.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Julie Nelson
DIRECTOR, BACK OFFICE OPERATIONS
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