- 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
- 1. Assess the current estate inventory, backup and recovery posture, high availability configuration, monitoring and alerting gaps, access model, capacity, and cost.
- 2. 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
- 1.



Full ownership of administration, operation, and optimization for all relational databases SQL Server (self-managed on EC2) and MySQL (RDS)
- 2. Performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, backup and recovery, high availability and failover, security and access management, capacity and cost
- Maturing the estate
- 1. 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
- 2. Own data observability monitoring, alerting, and capacity forecasting against agreed service levels
- 3. Establish backup and DR testing, access governance and change control that stand up to SOC 2 and our cyber insurer
- 4. Produce and maintain a data platform roadmap covering both relational stacks, Snowflake and the analytics estate
- 5. Set direction for the data engineering team on database matters
- Secondary

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