We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Data Warehouse Admin to join our team in San Jose, United States. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our cloud-based data warehouse infrastructure to support our organization's data analytics and business intelligence needs.
- Develop and optimize data models and database schemas.
- Build and enhance ETL/ELT pipelines for efficient data processing.
- Ensure reliable and efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Monitor and tune database and data warehouse performance.
- Implement query optimization and resource utilization best practices.
- Troubleshoot data warehouse issues to minimize downtime.
- Implement data security, encryption, and auditing controls.
- Configure and enforce IAM roles, RBAC, and fine-grained access controls.
- Manage Amazon Redshift clusters (provisioning, monitoring, scaling, tuning).
- Optimize Redshift queries, WLM settings, and distribution/sort keys.
- Perform Redshift maintenance (vacuum, analyze, archiving).
- Manage user accounts and security for Redshift, RDS, and Aurora.
- Create and maintain native connections between Redshift, RDS, and Aurora.
- Handle patching, upgrades, and release cycles for Redshift and Databricks.
- Implement and monitor alerting, logging, and system health checks.
- Conduct cost optimization for Redshift through workload monitoring and resizing.
- Analyze tables, views, and queries to provide best-practice recommendations.
- Automate routine operational tasks using scripts and tooling.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, support teams, and mentor junior members.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, IT, or related field, or 7+ years of relevant experience.
- 7–9 years of experience as a Database Administrator or Data Warehouse Administrator.
- 3+ years of hands-on AWS Redshift experience (cloud-based data warehousing).
- Extensive knowledge of AWS services including IAM roles/policies, VPC, subnets, encryption, and general cloud security.
- Strong experience in data warehouse platforms such as Redshift and Databricks.
- Proficient in SQL with strong experience in database management systems (Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, etc.).
- 2+ years of performance tuning and query optimization in SQL databases or MPP systems.
- Familiarity with MPP database performance tuning concepts and approaches.
- Expertise in ETL processes and ETL tools (e.g., AWS Glue).
- Experience in data modeling (logical/physical), normalization, denormalization, and schema design.
- Experience supporting cloud data warehouse environments and optimizing workloads.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Linux shell scripting
- Experience in requirements analysis, design, and development for data management applications.
- Familiarity with big data technologies and integration with cloud data warehouses.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, business, and operations teams to implement solutions.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
- High-tech or manufacturing industry experience preferred (not required).
- Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database Specialty) are a plus.
Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.
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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 04/27/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
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Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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