Database Administrator (DBA) / Database Engineer

Job description

Overview CalAmp’s K-12 transportation platform tracks the buses that move ~1 million students every school day across 400+ North American school districts. We run Microsoft SQL Server self-hosted on AWS EC2 — 9 production instances, 600+ customer databases, more than a billion rows of operational data, and growing. (An eventual move to AWS RDS is on the table as a future direction, not a near-term plan.) We’re hiring a hands-on Database Engineer with strong production experience who is ready to grow into architecture, automation, and modern engineering practices. Responsibilities: What you'll work on: Performance — the daily craft. Diagnose and fix slow queries, plan regressions, and locking storms across 9 SQL Server instances supporting customer-facing operations. You’ll inherit a decade of accumulated SQL — your first 90 days are about understanding it before re-architecting it. Reporting replica architecture. We need to separate analytical workload from operational SQL Server before it costs us customer SLAs. You’ll lead the design — likely AWS DMS feeding a multi-tenant Aurora PostgreSQL store, but the call is yours after scoping. This is a flagship project, not a maintenance...