AWS Database Engineer

AWS Database Engineer

Location: Remote

Job type: Full time

Must Have Skills:

SKills

Rating out of 5

No of years exp

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL- 5 Years

AWS services and cloud platform - Amazon DynamoDB- 5 Years

Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) - 5 Years

Microsoft SQL Server- 5 Years

Scripting - Python/KSH- 5 Years

Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool- 5 Years

CICD Devops- 4 Years

Minimum IT Experience: 8+ Years

Required Skills

• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, preferably Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, including database engineering, performance optimization, and platform administration.
• Senior-level Oracle Database Administration expertise is required for at least one assigned resource.
• Experience owning and operating production database platforms, including responsibility for platform reliability, availability, security, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
• Strong performance engineering skills, including execution plan analysis, query tuning, indexing strategies, and resolving database performance bottlenecks in partnership with application teams.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-native database platforms in AWS.
• Strong understanding of AWS services and cloud architecture with the ability to collaborate effectively across infrastructure, networking, security, and platform engineering teams.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform, including reusable module development, remote state management, environment provisioning, infrastructure lifecycle management, and infrastructure standardization.
• Experience applying DevOps practices, including Git-based development workflows, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong automation mindset with experience using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash to eliminate manual operational activities and improve platform efficiency.
• Experience working within Agile engineering teams using modern software delivery practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with database, cloud, application, and platform engineering teams.
• Demonstrated willingness to learn new technologies and expand responsibilities beyond traditional database engineering.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Amazon DynamoDB or other NoSQL database platforms. Dynamo will be one of platform to support.
• Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server.
• Knowledge of AWS services beyond relational databases, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), and containerization technologies, with the ability to contribute to broader cloud platform engineering initiatives.
• Experience advising application teams on database architecture, schema design, data modeling, and application performance optimization.
• Experience supporting database development activities, including SQL optimization, stored procedures, migration scripts, and development best practices.
• Experience with database modernization and migration projects.

Team Composition Requirements

The assigned team shall consist of two (2) Database Engineers with complementary technical expertise.

• Both engineers shall possess strong PostgreSQL and AWS database engineering experience.
• At least one (1) engineer shall possess senior-level Oracle Database Administration expertise.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and DynamoDB is highly desirable across the team but is not required for both resources.
• The combined team should provide broad coverage across database engineering, cloud platform engineering, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.

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