Hybrid Position
About the Role: We are seeking a Senior AWS & Multi-Database Engineer with deep expertise across AWS-managed database services as well as traditional and NoSQL platforms such as Oracle DB and MongoDB. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, strategic problem solver, and forward-thinking technologist who thrives on optimizing data infrastructure for scale, performance, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities: Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-managed and on-prem/cloud-hosted databases including:
  • Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, and Oracle engines)
  • Amazon DynamoDBAmazon ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached)
  • Amazon DocumentDB and MongoDBAmazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Elasticsearch Service)
  • Standalone Oracle Database environments
Manage RDS clusters, snapshots, and instances, ensuring data integrity, availability, and recovery readiness. Architect, implement, and maintain database monitoring, automation, and scaling strategies using AWS-native and third-party tools. Partner with engineering, DevOps, and analytics teams to deliver secure, high performing, and cost-efficient database solutions. Lead database migrations, upgrades, and disaster recovery planning with minimal downtime. Implement and optimize backup, replication, and sharding strategies for multi region and high-throughput workloads. Continuously assess emerging technologies and propose data modernization and optimization strategies.
Required Qualifications:
  • 5-10+ years of experience managing production database systems in AWS and hybrid environments.
  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS services:aws_rds_db_snapshot, aws_dynamodb, aws_rds_instance, aws_elasticache, aws_rds_cluster, aws_docdb_cluster, aws_elasticsearch_domain
  • Strong operational and tuning experience with Oracle Database and MongoDB.Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, performance tuning, and query optimization.
  • Experience implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery configurations.
  • Skilled in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for provisioning and automation.
  • Familiarity with security best practices - encryption, IAM roles, VPC networking, and data access controls.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills with a collaborative mindset.
Preferred Qualifications: AWS Certified Database - Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification. Experience with MongoDB and Oracle DB

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