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The Role
Leads administration of hybrid and multi-cloud database environments, including Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, MongoDB, Cassandra, and AWS platforms. Responsibilities include database installation, configuration, high availability, replication, monitoring, performance tuning, security, backup and recovery, capacity planning, project delivery, production support, and incident escalation. The role mentors database administrators, coordinates cross-functional work, develops operational procedures, and participates in 24x7 on-call support.
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This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Considering a role where your database expertise shapes mission-critical systems every day? As Lead Database Administrator at Spectrum, you will guide the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex database environments across both traditional (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata) and cloud-native platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS/Aurora). Your leadership will drive data integrity, scalability, and operational excellence across hybrid and multi-cloud data infrastructure, making a measurable impact on the backbone of our technology infrastructure.
How You'll Make an Impact
Working Conditions
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
Experience
Skills
Preferred Qualifications
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IDB365 2026-73992 IDB365 2026
Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2026-10-30 03:51 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$88,200.00 and $156,600.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. When you join our team, you'll be keeping customers connected to Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
Considering a role where your database expertise shapes mission-critical systems every day? As Lead Database Administrator at Spectrum, you will guide the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex database environments across both traditional (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata) and cloud-native platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS/Aurora). Your leadership will drive data integrity, scalability, and operational excellence across hybrid and multi-cloud data infrastructure, making a measurable impact on the backbone of our technology infrastructure.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Perform installations and configurations of grid infrastructure, databases, clients etc. Design and maintain access and security administration. Design, implement and maintain backup and recovery strategies on Database Management Systems
- Design, install, configure and maintains High Availability (RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard etc.) Database solutions
- Plan and organize the team's project and work responsibilities by defining project scope, establishing timelines, organizing project teams, and tracking/assigning deliverables, and working with internal/external departments to achieve project objectives
- Serve as escalation point in absence of leadership in the troubleshooting of alerts (alert log, jobs, disk group, tablespace, etc.) and performance issues. Provide recommendations to team around designs, installs, configures, maintains and troubleshoots High Availability (real application clustering-RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard etc.) Database solutions
- Install, configure, troubleshoot and monitor GoldenGate replication
- Expertise in setup using OEM as a monitoring and diagnostics tool and identifies/resolves the performance issues
- Troubleshoot and resolve alerts (alert log, Jobs, Disk Group, Tablespace etc.) and performance issues
- Perform capacity planning of different server environments and provides recommendations to management to sustain business growth. Proactively works with development teams to improve database design and procedures on PL/SQL best practices
- Coach and mentor junior Database Administrators as well as provide guidance on work assignments. Guide database administration team members and advise leadership by communicating issues to a wide variety of internal and external departments to include technical teams, senior leadership, and vendors
- Gather business requirements and designs, implements multiple projects along with the production support. Create standard operational procedures and templates. Perform research and provides plans to remediate complex business problems
- Represent the database operations team working closely with clients and partners. Participate in on call rotation
Working Conditions
- Office environment
- 24x7 on-call support
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience
Experience
- 8+ years of experience working with Oracle/SQL/Teradata and various database management systems in testing, implementation, maintenance and administration in a multiple platform environment
Skills
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English
- Demonstrated knowledge of Oracle 11g and 12c database architecture; knowledge of maintaining medium to large scale database systems (Oracle, SQL, and/or Teradata)
- In-depth knowledge in Oracle RAC and ASM; knowledge of Instance, database and query tuning to improve the performance of the database/application
- Demonstrated knowledge of Linux operating systems and shell scripting, Oracle OEM, Oracle GoldenGate, and MySQL database
- Advanced knowledge of business awareness, critical analysis, and integration of information as well as the ability to develop action-oriented plans
- Advanced leadership skills and ability to manage instances with multiple operating system platforms
- Ability to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Ability to assign tasks to small teams and follow-up on assigned tasks in a 24x7 database support environment
- Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner to all levels of management and company personnel
- Ability to handle multiple projects and tasks; effectively and solve problems while working under pressure
- Ability to show judgment and initiative to accomplish job duties
- Ability to work with others to resolve problems and handle requests
Preferred Qualifications
- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based and NoSQL database platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS/Aurora), including provisioning, scaling, sharding/replication, and security configuration
- Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery strategies across hybrid environments, spanning on-prem clustering (RAC, RAC One Node, Data Guard) and cloud-native replication/failover (e.g., MongoDB replica sets, Cassandra multi-DC replication, RDS Multi-AZ)
- Install, configure, troubleshoot, and monitor GoldenGate replication and cloud-native data replication/migration tools
- Monitor and tune performance across heterogeneous database platforms using cloud-native tools (CloudWatch, MongoDB Atlas/Ops Manager, DataStax OpsCenter) as well as traditional tools (OEM), identifying and resolving performance issues
- 8+ years of DBA experience, including relational platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata) and 3+ years hands-on experience with cloud/NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS RDS/Aurora)
- Demonstrated experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions in both on-prem and cloud environments
- Experience with database security, access control, and compliance, including encryption at rest/in transit and IAM-based access
- Prior experience leading or mentoring a DBA team
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty or equivalent cloud certification
- Scripting experience (Python/Bash) for automation
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
#LI-RM1
IDB365 2026-73992 IDB365 2026
Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2026-10-30 03:51 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$88,200.00 and $156,600.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
Get to Know Us Spectrum is a suite of advanced communications services offered by Charter Communications, the leading broadband and video company in the nation and the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint, with services available to more than 70 million homes and small to large businesses across 45 states. When you join our team, you'll be keeping customers connected to Seamless Connectivity and Entertainment with Spectrum Internet®, Mobile, TV and Voice products.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of experience with Oracle, SQL, Teradata, and various database management systems in testing, implementation, maintenance, and administration across multiple platforms
- Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English
- Knowledge of Oracle 11g and 12c database architecture and medium- to large-scale database systems
- In-depth knowledge of Oracle RAC and ASM, including instance, database, and query tuning
- Knowledge of Linux operating systems, shell scripting, Oracle OEM, Oracle GoldenGate, and MySQL
- Advanced business awareness, critical analysis, information integration, and action-plan development skills
- Advanced leadership skills and ability to manage instances across multiple operating system platforms
- Ability to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Ability to assign tasks to small teams and follow up in a 24x7 database support environment
- Clear oral and written communication skills with management and company personnel
- Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks, solve problems under pressure, and exercise judgment and initiative
- Ability to work collaboratively to resolve problems and handle requests
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon DocumentDB, and AWS RDS/Aurora platforms
- Experience designing high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions across on-premises and cloud environments
- Experience with cloud-native data replication and migration tools
- Experience monitoring and tuning heterogeneous database platforms using CloudWatch, MongoDB Atlas/Ops Manager, DataStax OpsCenter, and OEM
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud and NoSQL database platforms
- Experience with database security, access control, encryption, compliance, and IAM-based access
- Prior experience leading or mentoring a database administration team
- AWS Certified Database - Specialty or equivalent cloud certification
- Python or Bash scripting experience for automation
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
What the Team is Saying
Eilisa
Group Vice President, Service Delivery Applications
Stephanie
Sr. Director, Video Tools & Automation
Raquenel
Senior Director, Product Insights
Mary
GVP, Network Security Operations
Kat K.
Director of Field Operations
Spectrum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program is described as dollar‑for‑dollar up to 6% of pay, with many roles also receiving an additional 3% employer retirement contribution. Feedback suggests this creates a notably strong foundation for long‑term savings.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with health accounts and mental‑health resources, with up to $1,500 funded into a healthcare account for some national plans. Company materials also indicate efforts to keep employee premiums stable over time.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave (six weeks for parents, 14 weeks for birth mothers), fertility benefits, and up to $15,000 for adoption/surrogacy reimbursement are highlighted. These offerings indicate meaningful support for family building and caregiving needs.
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What We Do
At Spectrum, our Product & Technology teams build the platforms and tools that power seamless connectivity and entertainment across Internet, WiFi, Video, Mobile and Voice. Supporting more than 500 million devices, we’re transforming the next era of connected experiences with some of the fastest, most reliable and advanced services in the nation. It’s an unmatched environment for designers, architects, engineers, developers, operators and data scientists to grow their careers, solve complex challenges and collaborate to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Join us to help deliver what’s next.
Why Work With Us
At Spectrum, we continually refine technology, process, and structure. We are committed to delivering a superior network infrastructure, the most competitive products, and highly rated customer experiences. Our talented team of experts deploys technology solutions and builds systems and tools for our employees to provide exceptional operations.
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