Database Administrator III at Robert Half
Alpharetta, GA
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Jul 15, 2026
Alpharetta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract database administrator role centered on MySQL, covering both production and development environments. Day-to-day work involves managing replication, performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, and on-call incident support, alongside building and maintaining cloud database infrastructure on AWS or Azure using Terraform-based tooling and CI/CD pipelines. Suits an experienced MySQL DBA with a DevOps orientation and cloud platform exposure.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 140 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 60–260
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The title 'Database Administrator III' implies a leveled role, but the posting carries no explicit seniority label (Junior/Mid/Senior) in its framing — 'Unspecified' is used for the level advertised in the title accordingly.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree… or equivalent experience', so no hard degree gate is set.
AWS RDS and Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server are listed as 'and/or', indicating either satisfies the requirement; AWS RDS is used as the primary with Azure Database for MySQL as the alternative.
The monitoring/observability requirement names Grafana, ELK, Datadog, and Splunk as examples ('such as'), so Grafana is the primary with the others as alternatives — all are hard-gated as a capability requirement.
The IaC/CI/CD requirement specifies 2+ years and names Terraform, Terragrunt, and GitHub Actions explicitly in the Requirements section; these are treated as distinct hard-gated tools rather than interchangeable alternatives.
Preferred Qualifications (Azure cloud experience; Oracle/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Cosmos DB/SQL Server; Bash/Ansible/Python scripting) are marked as preferred.
This is a 6-month contract role placed by Robert Half, with extensions described as likely. No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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