Database Administrator

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Skills that raise your pay

  • Cloud databases

    Managing databases on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud. Most new systems go there.

  • Data engineering

    Building the pipelines that move and transform data. Overlaps with the DBA (database administrator) job and pays more.

  • Security and compliance

    Banks and hospitals need people who understand privacy law and encryption.

  • Performance tuning

    Making a slow query fast is the DBA (database administrator) party trick, and it gets you called in as a contractor.