Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Role: Senior Cloud Database Engineer

Location: Reading PA (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Job Description

• The primary responsibility of this role is to design and engineer resilient enterprise data platforms both on-premises and in a multi-cloud hybrid environment guided by the principles of a well-architected framework.
• This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration with cross-functional teams across the company to ensure platforms are built for adoption with high standards of performance scalability and cost optimization while leveraging emerging technologies in the data ecosystem.
• The person in this role will support the Data Engineering and Services teams objective to architect and engineer highly resilient and available data platforms in a global multi-cloud hybrid environment.

What Youll Be Doing

• Support application modernization and lead database migrations from on-premises to cloud environments.
• Stay current with industry trends and evaluate competitive advantages of emerging technologies patterns and methodologies.
• Drive the creation of technology roadmaps and maintain product portfolio components.
• Collaborate with product owners enterprise architects business SMEs and various application teams.
• Act as a Level 3 support resource for high-priority database-related incidents.
• Provide mentorship to onsite and offshore resources regarding cloud database technologies.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to databases.
• Guide teams in upgrading databases to newer versions and applying security patches.
• Collaborate proactively to ensure database reliability enforce robust security measures and conduct strategic capacity planning to support scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively and align stakeholders on key decisions.
• Design and implement automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation ensuring consistency scalability and repeatability across environments.
• Lead efforts to modernize legacy database systems and migrate workloads to cloud-native platforms leveraging automated pipelines and IaC for deployment.
• Implement observability tools to monitor database performance and system health including setting up alerts dashboards and logs using tools like Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch and LogicMonitor.
• Support the Data Engineering teams objective to architect and engineer resilient cost-optimized data platforms in a multi-cloud hybrid environment.
• Develop implement and regularly test database backup recovery and disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
• Create scripts and procedures to automate routine maintenance tasks such as backups patching and monitoring.

What You Bring

• Bachelors degree in IT or a related field.
• 3 years of experience designing business solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.
• 10 years of progressive experience in database technologies.
• 5 years of extensive experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL Redis/MemoryDB DynamoDB Aurora/RDS MySQL Snowflake and MongoDB.
• 5 years of experience with cloud databases and public cloud services (AWS Azure OCP OIC MongoDB Atlas etc.).
• Strong command of SQL PowerShell and Unix shell scripting; knowledge of Python and JSON is a plus.
• Proficiency in SQL tools such as TOAD SQL Developer PGADMIN DPA snowsql mongoDBcompass etc.
• Advanced knowledge of database security backup and recovery and performance monitoring standards.
• Solid understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling.
• Experience with database migrations and upgrades.
• Experience with both homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Expertise in modern approaches to designing building optimizing and deploying database workloads in public cloud environments preferably AWS.
• Skilled in schema design and data modeling.
• Proven ability to drive architectural and security improvements across systems tools and workflows.
• Passion for automation and optimization of database infrastructure working effectively with international teams (onsite and offshore).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present concepts and recommendations to management.
• AWS/Azure cloud certifications.

Added Bonus If You Have

• Masters degree in IT or a related field.
• DBA certifications.
• Experience with SOX SOC1 SOC2 and other compliance audits.