Ensuring data warehouse resilience, availability, recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and capacity planning. Coordinating between user, technical, application, and corporate entities for effective data management. Aligning pipeline development with business requirements. Validating and monitoring data integrity.

Conducting infrastructure assessment and strategic planning to align IT systems with business objectives. Architecting hybrid cloud and on-premises solutions. Designing scalable, secure, and performant architectures. Implementing security-first frameworks. Optimizing system performance using Datadog, SumoLogic, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Architected and maintained IaC modules for the DBA team using Terraform. Conducted database performance assessments including tuning, monitoring, and diagnosing SQL queries. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible. Led a small team of Database Engineers.

Led migration of MariaDB/MySQL databases from EC2 to AWS RDS Aurora MySQL managed instances. Pioneered DevOps and IaC practices for Data Operations. Designed metric dashboards using AWS CloudWatch and SumoLogic.

Lead SQL Server Production DBA managing over 100 national and international databases across multiple platforms, ensuring 99.9% server uptime. Served as Change Manager for Aldi IT Infrastructure, overseeing standardized change management processes. Pilot Leader in rolling out change management practices across Aldi.