The Nature Conservancy · 2 hours ago
Principal Database Administrator
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$114K/yr - $171K/yr
5+ years expThe Nature Conservancy is a global organization dedicated to protecting the lands and waters upon which all life depends. They are seeking a Principal Database Administrator responsible for managing and optimizing AWS and Azure database environments, ensuring operational support and maintenance, and collaborating with IT teams to meet production SLAs.
Environmental ConsultingNatural ResourcesNon ProfitWaterWildlife Conservation
Responsibilities
Providing effective database administration, architecture, design, management, and optimization services for AWS and Azure database environments accessed by The Nature Conservancy’s application development and business user groups
Providing on-going operational support/maintenance to ensure the availability, reliability, recoverability, performance, and security of cloud-based database systems
Facilitating knowledge transfer throughout the department and collaborating with existing team members and other IT colleagues
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science
Five or more years of experience implementing and maintaining cloud databases in both IaaS and PaaS models, supporting line of business applications on AWS and Azure
Five or more years of experience administering AWS RDS and Azure SQL database systems
Preferred
Excellent communication, organizational and time management skills
Proficiency in working independently as well as jointly with colleagues on a team
Collaborative mindset with a strong ability to mentor and support team members' professional development
AWS certification in AWS Certified Database – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect
Proficiency in Terraform and Python scripting for automating database administration tasks
Hands-on skills in managing and troubleshooting cloud-based databases
Understanding of cloud database technologies, with the ability to design solutions that balance performance, scalability and operational cost
Experience in an advisory role in cloud database technologies
Experience with multiple AWS database offerings beyond RDS
Experience in managing databases with a minimum database size of 1TB and at least 200 concurrent on-line users, including extensive batch processing and online transactional activities
Benefits
Health care benefits
Flexible spending accounts
A 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match
Parental leave
Accrued paid time off
Life insurance
Disability coverage
Employee assistance program
Other life and work well-being benefits
Company
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a non-profit conservation organization that works to protect terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$120.09MKey Investors
Global Affairs CanadaBezos Earth FundNFWF
2025-11-17Grant· $7.94M
2025-10-23Grant
2025-06-09Grant
Leadership Team
Jennifer Morris
Chief Executive Officer
Matt Merrifield
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-12-03
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