Sr Database Administrator

June 8, 2026

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This is not a remote role. You must be in the area or open to relocation.

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital- led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

This role is part of the TechOps, Quality & Systems Engineering (TQSE) team within Disney Experiences Technology, partnering closely with teams across multiple lines of business—including

applications, Disney Signature Experiences, and Disney Cruise Line—to support enterprise-wide initiatives.

The Senior Database Administrator will report to the Manager, Database Operations.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Responsible for building, deploying, and ensuring all DX database infrastructure is available 24/7/365.
Leverage processes and automation to design, modernize, and deliver database infrastructure.
Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
Analyze, design, and deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Proactively plan and implement infrastructure changes through capacity forecasting, software release cycles, and right sizing.
Provide database expertise through performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration.
Develop, enhance, and adhere to engineering and administration standards.
Develop automation and tooling to increase operational efficiency while ensuring system reliability and security.
Build infrastructure and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
Provide relevant insights into database infrastructure through metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
Maintain thorough and well-written documentation.
Participate in live event support and on-call rotation.
Provides oversight and direction to junior team members.
Build relationships with engineering teams and leads.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Must have at least 5 years of related work experience with Relational and NoSQL databases, including experience managing Amazon RDS databases or similar Cloud database-as-a-service deployments.
Must have experience with Oracle AND/OR PostgreSQL
Demonstrated level of understanding of database internals, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and administration.
Must have experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience designing and deploying fault-tolerant, distributed, and highly available database infrastructure.
Must have experience in database availability monitoring and status reporting using tools such as Percona Monitoring and Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and/or Cloud provider tools.
Well-versed in database backup, restore, and recovery strategies
Experience with proactively identifying problems/areas of improvement and designing creative solutions to successfully remediate issues.
Comfortable being a technical resource on complex projects such as upgrades or migrations with multiple stakeholders.
Experience with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics
Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience operating within a database reliability engineering (DRE) and/or systems reliability engineering (SRE) role.
Experience running, deploying, and maintaining production systems in AWS and other Cloud providers.
Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Replication setup and configuration to optimally support replication and migration use cases.
Understanding of and experience with Linux operating systems, network, and containers.
Comfortable being a go-to resource for all database-related issues raised by our engineering partners.
Experience building a proper path to production leveraging multiple lifecycles, testing, integration, and CI/CD pipelines.
Intermediate or higher level of experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go is a plus.
Experience working in Agile software development.
Experience with source control management tools (Git, GitLab, GitHub).
Experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef).

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The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $111,900.00 - $150,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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