Job Posting Title:
Sr Database Administrator
Req ID:
10147818
Job Description:
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.
Job Posting Segment:
DX Technology
Job Posting Primary Business:
Disney Signature Experiences
Primary Job Posting Category:
Database Administration
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Bay Lake, FL, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2026-05-05