Cox Communications

Principal Database Administrator

Cox Communications • $178K — $297K *
Hempstead, NY 11550In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline with 10+ years of experience, or equivalent experience with advanced degrees.
  • Experience in database design, code development, and administration for high-performance systems.
  • 8+ years with AWS RDS technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL services (e.g., DynamoDB).
  • Experience supporting 24x7 production systems with strict SLAs.
  • Expertise in high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies (e.g., clustering, replication).
  • Proficient in logical/physical database design, performance management, and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and optimize existing on-premises database systems as part of the cloud migration initiative.
  • Lead the design and execution of phased migrations to AWS.
  • Define database strategy and modernize cloud architecture.
  • Advise teams on data architecture decisions for scalability and performance.
  • Ensure high availability and security across enterprise database platforms.
  • Mentor database administrators and influence technical direction across engineering teams.
  • Utilize observability tools to monitor database health and guide operational decisions.

Benefits

  • Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take paid time off as needed.
  • Seven paid holidays per year.
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for personal or family wellness.
  • Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer time, military leave, and parental leave.
Full Job Description

Job Family Group

Information Technology

Job Profile

Principal Database Administrator

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $178,200.00 - $297,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Principal Database Administrator will support multiple product teams across Dealer Solutions and play a key role in working on (managed and optimized enterprise database systems) cloud migration initiatives.This role will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and re-architecting the current on-premises database environment. As a key technical enabler of the organization’s cloud strategy, the Senior Database Administrator will first stabilize and remediate the existing database infrastructure, then design and execute a safe, phased migration to AWS.

This position bridges the gap between the current aging, monolithic on-premises database environment running on on-prem infrastructure and a future-state scalable, cost-efficient, cloud-native database platform.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader who serves as the organization's primary database authority. Theyare responsible fordefining database strategy, driving cloud modernization efforts, advising architects and software engineers on data architecture decisions, ensuring high availability and security of enterprise platforms, and leading complex migration, resiliency, and performance initiatives. Theypossessdeepexpertiseacross both traditional relational databases and modern cloud-native data platforms while influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams.

Min Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline with10+ years of experiencein database administration, database engineering,or related technical roles.The right candidate may also have aMaster'sdegree with8+ years of experience, a Ph.D. with5+ years of experience, or14+ years ofdirectly relatedexperience.

  • Experience in database design, database code development, database administration, and systems engineering to build high-performance, fault-tolerant database systems and infrastructure for database-centric applications.

  • 8+ years ofexperiencedwith multiple AWS RDS database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL services such as DynamoDB, understanding trade-offs between AWS-managed variants.

  • Experience supporting 24x7 production systems with strict SLAs and uptime requirements.

  • Expertisein high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies (clustering, replication, failover, backup/restore strategies) to reduce risk and downtime across critical systems. Strong background in high-availability/disaster-recovery technologies (e.g., clustering, log shipping,GoldenGate, Always On, replica sets).

  • Perform logical and physical database design, data modeling, performance management/monitoringarchitectingand building databases from business requirements through planning, testing, and production deployment.

  • Provide expert-level leadership for Microsoft SQL Server environments, serving as the highest-level technical authority across database architecture, platform strategy, modernization, upgrades, migrations, cloud transformation, high availability, disaster recovery, replication, clustering, and backup/recovery ensuring resilient, scalable platforms with minimal business disruption and downtime.

  • 8 yearsof performance tuning, indexing strategies, query optimization, and execution plan analysis.

  • Drive innovation through implementation across functional teams, both internal and external, to meet business requirements.

  • Ability to design and support solutions spanning relational databases and microservice architectures, selecting the right technology for the right workload.

  • Strong collaboration with software engineers and architects on application and data architecture decisions, ensuring systems are built for scalability, resilience, and performance.

  • Use of observability tools and operational intelligence platforms to proactivelymonitordatabase health and drive data-informed operational decisions.

  • 8+ yearsBuilding and maturing CI/CD practices for database changes (schema migrations, deployment automation, version control, automated testing).

  • Mentor database administrators, influence architects and developers, review complex technical designs, lead strategic initiatives, and define the long-term evolution of the database platform.

  • Strong communicationskills translating technical trade-offs for engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Experience working in Agile development environments (Scrum, Kanban, or similar), collaborating within sprint-based delivery cycles.

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

About Cox Communications

Cox Communications is a telecommunications company that provides cable television, internet, and phone services to residential and business customers. The company operates in 18 states and has over 6 million customers. Cox Communications is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, a privately held company that also owns newspapers, television stations, and radio stations. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
Learn more about Cox Communications
Size
20,000 employees
Industry
Transportation
Net Income
$2 billion
5 Year Trend
+10%
Revenue
$12 billion
NASDAQ
* Ladders Estimates

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