Database Administrator resume template

Availability, latency, and recovery numbers front and center — the three things every DBA interview comes back to. Works for PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and mixed estates alike.

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✓DBAs running production PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL estates
✓SQL developers moving into administration and reliability work
✓Database engineers who want tuning wins quantified, not implied

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Grace Chandler

Database Administrator

grace.chandler@example.com
(555) 528-6641
Minneapolis, MN
linkedin.com/in/gracechandler

Summary

Database administrator with eight years running PostgreSQL and SQL Server estates behind high-volume payments and insurance systems. Keeps 60 production databases totaling 14 TB at 99.99% measured availability, with quarterly failover drills, sub-five-minute recovery points, and index work that cut the payment ledger's p95 latency 63%.

Experience

Database Administrator — Northlake Payments

2021 – Present

Administer 60 PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases (14 TB) behind card processing; availability measured at 99.99% for 2025
Cut p95 query latency 63% on the payments ledger by reworking indexes, partitioning, and vacuum scheduling on the hottest tables
Run quarterly failover drills across 3 replication topologies; recovery point held under 5 minutes on every tier-1 system

Database Administrator — Cedarfield Insurance Group

2019 – 2021

Upgraded 22 SQL Server instances across two major versions with under 15 minutes of total customer-facing downtime
Automated index and statistics maintenance across 40 databases, reclaiming 1.8 TB and cutting nightly job time 40%

SQL Developer — Granite Bay Analytics

2018 – 2019

Wrote and tuned 200+ stored procedures feeding daily reporting for 90 analysts and three executive dashboards
Reduced the nightly ETL window from 6 hours to 2.5 by batching loads and parallelizing the heaviest transforms

Education

B.S. Computer Science — University of Minnesota2018

Skills

PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MySQL
Redis

pgBackRest
Liquibase
Ansible
Grafana
AWS RDS

Performance tuning
High availability
Backup and recovery
Capacity planning

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

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