ETS
Database Administrator Lead
🇺🇸
Hybrid - Princeton, NJ
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Full-Time
💰
$169K - $203K
💻
Software Engineering
🗓️
February 5th, 2026
Ansible
CI/CD
PostgreSQL
Edtech.com's Summary
ETS is hiring a Database Administrator Lead. This role involves designing and maintaining efficient database solutions using Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 15, and SQL Server 2019 while managing cloud architecture in AWS. The position requires leading technical problem-solving, coordinating database maintenance, and ensuring security and performance standards across projects.
Highlights
- Design and administer databases including Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 15, and SQL Server 2019.
- Develop and maintain cloud architecture solutions and CI/CD pipelines using AWS services.
- Perform database backup, recovery, performance tuning, and upgrades.
- Use Oracle Enterprise Manager for monitoring and alert configuration.
- Provide expertise in Linux and Windows administration and scripting.
- Experience with AWS core services: EC2, RDS, REDSHIFT, SCT, DMS, S3, SNS, EBS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
- Knowledge of DevOps principles and tools such as Git workflows, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Python.
- Lead and mentor infrastructure and application database teams.
- Salary range from $169,100 to $202,900 annually.
- Requires 10 years of experience with diverse DBMS and cloud database architecture skills.
Database Administrator Lead Full Description
Database Administrator Lead (ref#: 6789)
- Job Tracking ID : 83080-367298
- Job Level : Any
- Level of Education : High School/GED
- Job Type : Full-Time/Hybrid
- Date Updated : 02/05/2026
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : No
- Salary : $169,100 USD Annually - $202,900 USD Annually
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Duties: Provide technical expertise to design business solutions related to DBMS (Database Management System) "Internals", DBMS tools and utilities usage, database backup and recovery, database performance, and overall database performance monitoring and tuning. Ensure that data access and database designs are as efficient as possible by coordinating transaction access path analysis sessions with application developers and analyzing specifications and code. Utilize CASE tools to develop, or modify, physical database designs from logical designs. Responsible for Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 15 and SQL Servers 2019 Database administration. Set up and support Oracle Data Guard and standby databases required. Create and maintain efficient cloud architecture solutions in support of database administration in AWS. Expert knowledge of compute. storage, networking, security and database AWS services. Create and maintain CI/CD Infrastructure as Code pipelines to efficiently deploy AWS resources. Perform database upgrades and migrations. Support OS patching on Database Servers. Trouble-shoot database and/or software problems as they apply to design, implementation, or installation activities. Act as the bridge between database and system level integration issues and set clear direction for others to follow. Assure quality of database analysis and design across projects, thus enabling company-wide data reusability. Schedule and coordinate infrastructure and database maintenance activities including such items as database reorganizations and restructure. Coordinate and/or participate in database stress tests, analyze results, and make recommendations for design or coding changes based upon those results. Participate in on-call and overnight production support and problem resolution activities. Develop and maintain DBMS related standards and procedures to facilitate the identification and implementation of, quality improvement initiatives. Research, evaluate, and test new software and DBMS related tools and facilities as they pertain to the existing DBMS environment, database designs, procedures, and applications. Responsible for the security of company information through secure databases and monitoring environment to identify improper access and ensure compliance with all ETS security and audit standards. Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the hardware, operating system, network and database arenas and provide consultation and knowledge transfer as needed. Monitor current DBMS performance and capacity and develops procedures to improve the DBMS environment. Lead and mentor teams of other Infrastructure or application DBA staff to solve technical database and system challenges. Collaborate with other application DBA staff, senior infrastructure DBA staff, developers, and other technical staff to ensure that best practices are followed for relational database design, database configurations, and installation options
*May work remotely 2 days per week within normal commuting distance of Princeton, NJ.
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
Duties: Provide technical expertise to design business solutions related to DBMS (Database Management System) "Internals", DBMS tools and utilities usage, database backup and recovery, database performance, and overall database performance monitoring and tuning. Ensure that data access and database designs are as efficient as possible by coordinating transaction access path analysis sessions with application developers and analyzing specifications and code. Utilize CASE tools to develop, or modify, physical database designs from logical designs. Responsible for Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 15 and SQL Servers 2019 Database administration. Set up and support Oracle Data Guard and standby databases required. Create and maintain efficient cloud architecture solutions in support of database administration in AWS. Expert knowledge of compute. storage, networking, security and database AWS services. Create and maintain CI/CD Infrastructure as Code pipelines to efficiently deploy AWS resources. Perform database upgrades and migrations. Support OS patching on Database Servers. Trouble-shoot database and/or software problems as they apply to design, implementation, or installation activities. Act as the bridge between database and system level integration issues and set clear direction for others to follow. Assure quality of database analysis and design across projects, thus enabling company-wide data reusability. Schedule and coordinate infrastructure and database maintenance activities including such items as database reorganizations and restructure. Coordinate and/or participate in database stress tests, analyze results, and make recommendations for design or coding changes based upon those results. Participate in on-call and overnight production support and problem resolution activities. Develop and maintain DBMS related standards and procedures to facilitate the identification and implementation of, quality improvement initiatives. Research, evaluate, and test new software and DBMS related tools and facilities as they pertain to the existing DBMS environment, database designs, procedures, and applications. Responsible for the security of company information through secure databases and monitoring environment to identify improper access and ensure compliance with all ETS security and audit standards. Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the hardware, operating system, network and database arenas and provide consultation and knowledge transfer as needed. Monitor current DBMS performance and capacity and develops procedures to improve the DBMS environment. Lead and mentor teams of other Infrastructure or application DBA staff to solve technical database and system challenges. Collaborate with other application DBA staff, senior infrastructure DBA staff, developers, and other technical staff to ensure that best practices are followed for relational database design, database configurations, and installation options
*May work remotely 2 days per week within normal commuting distance of Princeton, NJ.
Experience and Skills
Requirements: 10 years of experience. Experience must include the following skills: A diverse and extensive technical DBMS background with considerable experience in physical database design, DBMS tools, client/server applications and data warehousing; knowledge and experience in administering Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL 15, and SQL Server 2019, including installation, upgrades, performance tuning, high availability, backup, and recovery; knowledge of using Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for monitoring database performance, server metrics, and configuring alerts; knowledge and experience with AWS cloud concepts and delivery; experienced with creating and maintaining efficient cloud architecture solutions in support of database administration in AWS; knowledge of computing, storage, networking, security and database AWS services; experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD Infrastructure as Code pipelines to efficiently deploy AWS resources; experience with cloud orchestrations tools like AWS (CFT) CloudFormation and/or Terraform; knowledge in Linux and Windows system administration; experience in designing solutions related to Cloud Database Architecture (AWS and Azure); experience in Linux and Windows scripting skills; experience with Server, network, and storage performance optimization; experience with core AWS services such as EC2, RDS, REDSHIFT, SCT, DMS, S3, SNS, EBS, Lambda, Elastic DRS, CloudWatch and CloudTrail; knowledge of DevOps Principles; experience in using Git branching, push/pull requests, and advanced Git workflows; and experience in Python, Ansible and PowerShell/Bash. The required skills do not need to be maintained over the full term of required experience.
Salary range: $169,100/year - $202,900/year
ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
- The base salary range advertised represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position. 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. The base pay is only one aspect of the Total Rewards Package that will be offered to the successful candidate.
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
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