StaffAdministrator(Database)

**_Why Join Lytx_** At Lytx, you'll have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the Database Infrastructure and Solutions to help support the scalability of our global IoT platform. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive innovation, and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our infrastructure practices. The Staff Database Administrator is a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of cloud database services that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-effective. This role provides technical leadership across Amazon RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, and Microsoft SQL Server, enabling SaaS applications and cloud operations to run reliably at scale. The engineer plays a key role in incident management, participates in on-call rotations, and partners with a 24x7x365 Managed Service Provider (MSP) to maintain production stability. **_Key Responsibilities_** * Own day-to-day operations and advanced administration of AWS RDS (Postgres, MySQL, Aurora), MongoDB Atlas, Redshift and Microsoft SQL Server, including configuration, patching, scaling, and troubleshooting. * Configure MCP (Model Context Protocol) for Postgres/mysql & Leverage all AI Capabilities to automate all the DB related tasks. * Implement and refine database standards, automation, and operational runbooks to ensure availability, performance, security, and compliance across all environments. * Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams on schema design, indexing strategies, query tuning, and data lifecycle management to optimize workload performance and cost. * Design, build, and maintain automation for provisioning, patching, backups, cloning, and monitoring using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and native AWS services like CloudWatch and Systems Manager. * Implement and enhance observability for databases, including metrics, logs, traces, alert thresholds, an