Database Engineer

Seeking a Database Engineer with strong experience supporting enterprise-scale, cloud-hosted databases, primarily within AWS environments. This role focuses on database administration, performance optimization, data modeling, and operational reliability, ensuring high availability and efficiency for mission-critical systems.

Target salary is $130-135k. (Please note this position is funded through March 2026 and most likely will push through June 2026).

Primary Focus Areas

• Administer and optimize AWS-hosted databases.
• Design and maintain efficient, scalable data models.
• Monitor and tune database performance.
• Troubleshoot data integrity and system issues.
• Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise databases hosted on AWS RDS and EC2.
• Perform database performance tuning (query optimization, indexing, configuration).
• Design and optimize schemas, tables, indexes, and views.
• Identify and resolve data inconsistencies and database-related issues.
• Support database reliability, scalability, and operational health.
• Monitor database performance using metrics and monitoring tools.

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Core Technical Skills

• Certification: 8570 certification in IAT Level II certification or above (Security+ CE, CASP+ CE, CISSP, etc.)
• Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, EC2-hosted databases).
• Database Administration: Backup/recovery, configuration, tuning.
• Performance Optimization: Query tuning, index management, execution plan analysis.
• Data Design: Schema and relational data modeling.
• Monitoring: Performance metrics, alerting, and health dashboards.
• Bachelor's and nine (9) or relevant years of experience in lieu of degree.

Problem Solving & Reliability

• Strong troubleshooting skills for data integrity and performance issues.
• Ability to quickly diagnose root causes of database incidents.
• Experience maintaining uptime and system stability in production environments.

Preferred

• Database Administrator (DBA) transitioning into a cloud-focused engineer role.
• Backend or platform engineer with deep database tuning experience.
• Cloud engineer with strong RDS and data performance background.
• Engineers supporting high-volume or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code around databases.
• Exposure to multi-environment (dev/test/prod) database support.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms.