Sr. Data Infrastructure Engineer

The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer will lead and manage MySQL and Snowflake database platforms, with additional support for Amazon Redshift. Responsibilities include the maintenance, administration, upgrades, and migration of databases to ensure high-performance, scalable, and secure data solutions. The role involves scaling data infrastructure, optimizing performance, and ensuring the reliability and security of mission-critical systems. Key duties include developing and enforcing database standards, best practices, and security protocols; monitoring and analyzing database performance for optimization; managing data lifecycle policies; administering environments including user access, roles, and cost controls; implementing and managing backup and disaster recovery strategies; ensuring database high availability through replication and clustering; performing routine maintenance tasks like patching and upgrades; automating database operations; implementing monitoring solutions; ensuring compliance with data security policies; managing access controls, encryption, and auditing; providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members; collaborating with cross-functional teams to align database solutions with business needs; participating in capacity planning and strategic decision-making; and supporting ELT/ETL pipelines and Snowflake cost governance.