Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exiger is an AI-native supply chain and third-party risk management company serving federal agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises. Exiger is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the data foundation for its 1Exiger agentic AI platform and transactional and analytical workloads, including cloud database operations, AI-native data infrastructure, security, compliance, optimization, and mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Architect, operate, and optimize Exiger’s cloud data platforms across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and future IL5/IL6 environments
- Own performance, scale, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and multi-region strategies across transactional, analytical, and AI workloads
- Build and support AI-native data infrastructure for 1Exiger, including vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, inference telemetry, evaluation data, and agent memory
- Ensure data security, encryption, access control, auditability, lineage, retention, and CUI handling meet FedRAMP High and federal customer requirements
- Partner with security teams on POA&M remediation, vulnerability management, control evidence, and continuous monitoring
- Drive cost optimization, modernization, and consolidation across legacy and cloud data estates using FinOps and open data architecture principles
- Promote DevOps best practices, including infrastructure as code, automated schema migrations, CI/CD integration, and feature-flag-gated releases
- Mentor engineers and DBAs on scalable, cost-aware, compliance-ready data architecture
Skills
- 8+ years of database administration experience with increasing ownership of cloud data architecture
- Deep expertise in cloud database design, performance tuning, scaling, capacity planning, cost planning, backup, replication, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, encryption, access control, and audit requirements for data platforms
- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with strict uptime, security, and compliance requirements
- Working knowledge of, or strong interest in, AI data infrastructure such as vector search, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and model telemetry
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, and security teams
- Experience with FedRAMP, StateRAMP, IL4+, NIST 800-53, or federal compliance environments
- Experience in compliance, risk, financial services, defense, or data-intensive SaaS environments
- Experience with air-gapped or disconnected database environments
- Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization at scale
- Experience supporting ML or AI platforms in production
Benefits
- High-performance culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.
- Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
- Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
- Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
- Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications
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