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.