Own the database and data estate end to end: assess what we have, run a time-critical upgrade as the first job, and then set the direction and standards that mature the whole environment

Our SQL Server is BYOL on EC2: we install, configure, and operate it ourselves, an on-premise setup that happens to live in AWS. MySQL runs on RDS

First 90 days
- Assess the current estate: inventory, backup and recovery posture, high availability configuration, monitoring and alerting gaps, access model, capacity, and cost.
- Produce a written state-of-the-estate and a prioritized remediation plan

Near-term priority
- 1. Upgrade the Windows Server OS hosting our production SQL Server estate — Windows Server 2016 → 2022 — across an Always On Availability Group cluster, with no data loss and minimal downtime. Must do before the end of 2026
- 2. Then upgrade the SQL Server version from our current SQL Server 2017, and own the recommendation on whether we stay self-managed on EC2 or move to AWS RDS managed SQL Server after the upgrade.

Core ownership
- Full ownership of administration,



operation,s and optimization for all relational databases: SQL Server (self-managed on EC2) and MySQL (RDS)
- Performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery, high availability and failover, security and access management, capacity and cost

Maturing the estate
- Define and enforce database standards across the C#/.NET SQL Server and TypeScript/MySQL codebases; act as the technical authority on schema and data-access design for both engineering teams
- Own data observability: monitoring, alerting, and capacity forecasting against agreed service levels
- Establish backup and DR testing, access governan,ce and change control that stand up to SOC 2 and our cyber insurer
- Produce and maintain a data platform roadmap covering both relational stacks, Snowfl,ake and the analytics estate
- Set direction for the data engineering team on database matters

Secondary
- Snowflake administration,

📌 Lead Database (Buenos Aires)
🏢 Zeo Consulting
📍 Buenos Aires