Database Administrator III at Old Dominion Freight Line
Paducah, KY
$105,716–$132,144from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Paducah, KY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior database administration role responsible for leading and mentoring a DBA team while managing mission-critical databases across production and non-production environments. Day-to-day work covers performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, security enforcement, automation through scripting, and supporting cloud platforms. The role suits an experienced DBA with a background spanning multiple database platforms and cloud technologies who is comfortable with on-call responsibilities and technical leadership.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 25 people in KY plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 5–35
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $116,405 (middle half $83,926–$141,954). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (6)
The job title carries no seniority level, but the requirements (7+ years DBA experience, 5+ years performance tuning, technical leadership and mentoring of junior DBAs) clearly support a Senior-level classification.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … and/or relevant experience', which means equivalent experience is accepted — treated as no hard degree gate.
The cloud platform requirement (GCP, OCI, AWS, Azure) is listed with 'e.g.' but sits in the Required Experience section with an explicit 2+ years qualifier, so it is treated as a hard gate. The four named platforms are all listed as interchangeable options for that requirement.
Backup/recovery and HA/DR tools (RMAN, Data Guard, Clustering, Always On, Commvault) and replication tools (GoldenGate, Qlik) are listed in the Required Experience section with 'e.g.' qualifiers — treated as hard gates on the capability, with the named tools as interchangeable alternatives.
Monitoring tools (OEM, Dynatrace, Spotlight) are introduced with 'Familiarity with' — a softer qualifier — so they are marked as preferred.
The CBSA location is inferred from Old Dominion Freight Line's corporate headquarters in Thomasville, NC; the posting does not explicitly state a work location beyond the company context.
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