Cloud DB Engineer

Since our founding in 2012 Lotlinx has consistently pioneered advancements in the automotive landscape. We specialize in empowering automobile dealers and manufacturers by providing cuttingedge data and technology delivering a distinct market advantage for every single vehicle transaction. Today we stand as the foremost automotive AI and machine learning powered technology excelling in digital marketing risk management and strategic inventory management.

Lotlinx provides employees with a dynamic work environment that is challenging teamoriented and full of passionate people. We offer great incentives to our employees such as competitive compensation and benefits flex time off and career development opportunities.

About the Team

Our Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers Lotlinxs applications and services. We are a small dynamic team of two (soon to be three! passionate engineers dedicated to implementing best practices in cloudnative technologies and ensuring a reliable and scalable platform. We believe in collaboration continuous learning and empowering developers to deliver exceptional products.

Role Overview

Were seeking a skilled and experienced Cloud Database Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. You will play a crucial role in designing implementing and managing our cloud database infrastructure ensuring high availability performance and security. You will also contribute to the broader platform engineering efforts leveraging your expertise in cloudnative technologies.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Database Management
• Design deploy and manage cloud database solutions (e.g. AWS RDS Azure SQL Database Google Cloud SQL or similar).
• Optimize database performance including query tuning indexing and resource allocation.
• Implement and maintain database backup recovery and disaster recovery strategies.
• Ensure database security including access control encryption and vulnerability management.
• Monitor database health and performance proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Automate database provisioning configuration and maintenance tasks.
• CloudNative Technologies
• Work with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).
• Implement infrastructureascode (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with developers to integrate database solutions into cloudnative applications.
• Participate in the design and implementation of scalable and resilient microservices architectures.
• Collaboration and Communication
• Work closely with developers operations and other stakeholders to understand database requirements.
• Document database configurations procedures and best practices.
• Participate in oncall rotations to ensure platform availability.
• Share knowledge and mentor other team members.

Qualifications

• Required
• Proven experience in managing cloud database services (e.g. AWS RDS Apache Pinot Google Cloud SQL).
• Strong understanding of database concepts including relational databases SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructureascode (IaC) tools (Terraform CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problemsolving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Database Monitoring tools.
• Preferred
• Experience with specific database technologies (e.g. MySQL Apache Pinot).
• Experience with specific in memory cache technologies (e.g. Redis).
• Experience with cloudnative observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana LGTM stack).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python Bash).
• Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Database Specialty etc)

The salary range for this position is $110000 $140000.

Lotlinx is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

Lotlinx is not currently able to offer sponsorship for employment visa status.

Lotlinx is headquartered in Peterborough NH and has locations in Holmdel NJ Manitoba Ontario and British Columbia Canada in addition to a large team spanning from the US to Canada.

Our success relies heavily on our customers but also our dedicated talent that continuously moves our platform forward. We value our employees their abilities and seek to foster an open cooperative dynamic environment where the team and company alike can thrive.