Senior Cloud Engineer - Database

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement industry best practices for consistent modularized installation and configuration for production and non-production environments, including self-service options to service teams using a DevOps mindset and principles.
• Identify cost saving opportunities surrounding compute, storage, and other cloud resources.
• Troubleshoot, track, and resolve complex database issues, identify recurring problems, and apply fixes.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to gather requirements and engineer solutions that meets business needs.
• Install, configure, and document high availability and business continuity solutions as per business requirements.
• Implement sound backup and recovery policies and procedures using cloud based backup solutions.
• Maintain production database systems and proactively mitigate performance and configuration issues.
• Lead the database deployments, tech upgrades, and approved changes.
• May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement automated methods to perform Oracle installation, cloning, patching, upgrades, and migration.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and engineer solutions.
• Configure high availability and business continuity solutions.
• Define monitoring requirements and lead proactive improvements.
• Automate SOPs and maintenance tasks.
• Act as SME during escalated issues.
• Support deployments and change management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues.
• Maintain replication and synchronization.
• Perform space and capacity planning.
• Design and maintain backup and recovery procedures.
• Optimize performance and minimize incidents.
• Ensure database security and support audits.
• Research and introduce cloud and AI-enabled technologies.
• Provide on-call support.
• Use AI tools for monitoring and root cause analysis.
• Implement AI-assisted automation for DBA tasks.
• Support predictive alerting and self-healing systems.
• Collaborate on AI-enabled applications and data platforms.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• U.S. citizenship or otherwise legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• 5+ years managing Oracle, MySQL, Postgres databases.
• 5+ years Oracle eBusiness Suite.
• 3+ years AWS.
• 2+ years AWS RDS.
• Strong AWS expertise.
• Experience with high availability architectures.
• Automation skills for DBA functions.

Qualifications

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• CloudFormation, Python, Ansible.
• Splunk experience.
• Healthcare domain knowledge.
• Knowledge of AI/ML for database operations.
• Experience with LLM tools (e.g., AWS Bedrock).
• AI agents and automation frameworks.
• Responsible AI and governance understanding.
• AI integration with DevOps.
• AI for performance and cost optimization.

Pay

$130,000.00 - $160,000.00 Annually