Skydance3mo ago

Senior Database Administrator

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Overview

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company.

Technical Tools

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While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

For information on Skydance’s privacy practices, see the Skydance U.S. Personnel Privacy Notice located at https://skydance.com/privacy-personnel/.

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The Senior Database Administrator at Skydance Animation is a member of the Information Technology team and will be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and advancing our database systems and services. The ideal candidate will work across the organization as a champion of DBA services and best practices and will oversee database systems, policies, and procedures to ensure the highest reliability and performance possible.

Architect, design, and oversee the development and administration of databases company wide on-prem and in cloud, including database services to support a next-generation Animation Pipeline

Create data strategy artifacts such as policy, governance and instructions, capabilities descriptions, metadata implementation specifications, product format specifications, and interface description specifications

Provide oversight of data architecture engineering, data management support, solutions, tracking efficiencies, and meeting net-centric and data-centric objectives

Evaluate, maintain, and re-engineer existing databases to use cloud services or new, more efficient database techniques and infrastructure

Produce and prepare activity and progress reports regarding database status, health, and management

Create Indexes, Clusters, Snapshots, Views, data dictionaries and other database objects, as well as manage Rollback Segments, Data File Size, and all the other aspects related to performance tuning

Ensure data integrity and accuracy to ensure that data is accurate, consistent, and up-to-date, and implementing data validation rules and data quality controls

Create, implement, and maintain database systems logging and performance monitoring solutions/services

Setup database authentication strategy and profiles such as username / password, PKI, LDAP, etc.

Ensure Patch and Vulnerability management of enterprise database systems. Identify and correct potential database service security weaknesses

Create backup and recovery plans and procedures based on industry best practices, including testing to ensure recovery is successful

Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to databases, such as system crashes, data corruption, or connectivity problems

Plan and executes database upgrades and migrations to database software, hardware, and infrastructure, and migrating data to new systems as necessary

Provide database-related support and training to technology teams, production teams, and end-users

Maintain documentation of database structures, procedures, and policies, and ensures that documentation is kept current and up to date

Create work products such as entity relationship diagrams, data flow diagrams, structure charts, data structure diagrams, and pseudo code to properly evangelize and explain Database services to Engineers, Leadership, and other Studio Teams

Identify opportunities for process improvements and work with team members to implement efficiency

Act in a senior capacity, providing direction and oversight; additionally, act as a mentor to junior team members

8+ years installing and maintaining one or more of the following RDBMS: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Mongo

8+ years managing database schemas

Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices

Experience with IaC and managing databases within common cloud providers and use of related services like AWS’s RDS or SQL Server in Microsoft Azure

Knowledge of Power BI, a plus

Proficiency in Postgres - Administration, Performance and Tuning

Understanding and ability to work with CI/CD Pipelines

Linux/Unix knowledge

Skilled in scripting languages such as shell, python, a plus

Experience in Media and Entertainment, VFX, or Animation Industry, a plus

Spanish language skills, a plus

Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, including strong technical writing and interpersonal skills

Must be available to work outside of business hours as needed for maintenance/ critcal outages

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United States

On-site within the country

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Listing Details

Posted: February 10, 2026
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 14, 2026

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Trust Level: 31%
Scored at: May 14, 2026

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Skydance Media is a diversified media company founded in 2010 by David Ellison to create high-quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences.

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350

Founded

2010

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