Database Engineer

Role & responsibilities The Cloud Database Engineer is responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance and reliability of cloud-based database solutions. This role focuses on leveraging automation and modern practices to optimize database operations and support the development of new services and features. Develop database-centric automation, utilizing infrastructure as Code (IAC), CI/CD processes, and robust scripting that will be consumed by the entire engineering organization, Review database and infrastructure components for automation opportunities, and work with teams to plan and schedule improvements, Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams as an SME, promoting cloud database best practices, Contribute to larger scope architectural discussions to identity preferred solutions for our unified cloud platform. This will involve timely decision-making, project estimation and extensive analysis, Support legacy technologies and be a driving force to migrate them to new cloud-native solutions, Improve existing incident response processes and introduce new alerting and monitoring to remediate production issues efficiently, Participate in an on-call SME rotation to support production databases and essential infrastructure Preferred candidate profile 10+ years supporting database solutions, 5+ years specifically focused on cloud database support and automation Experience with AWS, Google Cloud or Azure cloud platforms Experience with a variety of cloud-native database/storage solutions, such as AWS Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticache, and S3, Experience with Data Lake/Data Warehouse best practices, implementation, and compliance requirements, Automation experience using scripting tools like Python and Bash, in addition to standardized template approaches like Terraform and CloudFormation, Experience with planning, implementing, and supporting highly scalable cloud database solutions, Knowledge of database security and compliance best practices. Comfortable with a DevOps mindset, i.e. database solutions should be implemented with a focus on source control, automation, and disaster recovery Bachelors Degree or equivalent