Database Administrator

About the Role  

We're looking for an experienced Database Administrator to assess and stabilize database operations for a client engagement spanning MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. This role starts with a clear-eyed look at what's actually in place — access models, backup posture, monitoring coverage, and operational ownership — and moves quickly into fixing what's fragile and documenting what's not.  

The ideal candidate has run production databases under real pressure, knows the difference between a backup that exists and one that's been proven to restore, and can turn a messy current state into a prioritized, actionable plan.   

  

What you'll do  

Assess the current state  

• Review database management practices, access model, and operational ownership  

• Evaluate monitoring coverage, backup posture, and routine maintenance  

• Identify performance concerns and the issues that need stabilizing first  

• Turn the findings into a clear, prioritized picture the client can act on  

  

Implement & Fix 

• Find the cause of problems in stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views: wrong results, bad data written, NULL handling errors, implicit data type 

conversion, missing ORDER BY, and incomplete transaction or error handling. 

• Reproduce the problem on a restored copy before changing production. 

• Make the smallest change that fixes it, and say what else the change affects. 

• Add a test that proves the fix and catches it if it comes back. 

• Tell the difference between a database code problem, a data problem, and an application problem, and send the ones that are not database problems to the 

right team. 

• Put agreed operational hygiene practices in place across both platforms  

• Recommend and apply performance tuning, optimizing queries that cost the most, fixing deadlocks, adding missing indexes and improving waits. 

• Verify backups and test recovery — confirm they work, don't assume it  

• Improve monitoring and alerting so problems surface before users report them  

• Triage and resolve incidents as they come up  

• Document what exists, what changed, and how to run it  

  

What you'll bring  

• Solid production DBA experience with both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server  

• Experience working with legacy databases and strong experience coding and debugging store procedures. 

• Backup and recovery: design, validation, and real restore testing  

• Query and index tuning, execution plan analysis, wait statistics  

• Monitoring and alerting setup on either platform  

• Comfort with database security and access models — roles, least privilege, auditing  

• Clear written documentation. Runbooks that someone else can follow  

• The ability to work inside a client's constraints and escalate rather than improvise when scope is unclear 

 

 

About Nimble Gravity 

Nimble Gravity is a team of outdoor enthusiasts, adrenaline seekers, and experienced growth hackers. We love solving hard problems and believe the right data can transform and propel growth for any organization. 

Nimble Gravity is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Nimble Gravity considers all qualified applicants.