Lead Database Administrator

The Team You Will Join

When you join MetLife’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise database platforms across MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Azure Cosmos DB. Lead database installations, upgrades, and reliability initiatives with an automation-first approach, enabling self-service patching, upgrades, and schema or data changes through standardized CI/CD pipelines. Implement and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity.

Provide observability, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and tuning to support current and future workload demands. Ensure database security and compliance controls across production and non-production environments. Advise application teams on database design, performance optimization, and operational best practices. Lead evaluation and adoption of new database services, establish enterprise database standards, manage related projects and documentation, and mentor database administrators.

Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to improve reliability, efficiency, and compliance. Participate in on-call support for a 24x7 enterprise environment.

Required Qualifications

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, or a related field (will accept foreign education equivalent) and eight (8) years of experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical database environments. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, or a related field (will accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical database environments.

Position also requires experience in the following: performing database administration functions, including installations, patching, and upgrades for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB on Linux-based platforms; designing and implementing database monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to support high availability and optimal performance; leading the architecture, design, and development of enterprise-scale database automation frameworks and platforms; implementing data driven operational intelligence to detect anomalies, predict failures, and automate corrective actions to improve reliability; ensuring database stability, availability, and performance; managing production operations, including incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives; and, automating routine database operations and improving operational reliability in complex, enterprise environments.

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

The expected salary range for this position is $148,421.00 - $175,600.00. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

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