Database Engineer

Ares Operations•New York, NY

About The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated Database Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise database platforms. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for modernizing and transforming the firm's data platform and database services. Candidates must have hands-on experience administering, automating, and supporting medium to large enterprise database environments. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in database engineering, software development, automation, cloud services, and platform engineering. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, database lifecycle management, and cloud-hosted database services is highly desirable.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
8+ years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database platforms.
Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and/or MySQL database, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL technologies.
Demonstrated experience designing highly available database environments and disaster recovery solutions.
Proven experience developing automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, C#, REST APIs, Git or similar programming languages.
Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Infrastructure-as-Code practices preferred.
Experience supporting cloud database solutions within Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
Strong understanding of database security, encryption, authentication, and compliance requirements.
Experience troubleshooting performance issues across large-scale database environments.
Experience with monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and operational reporting platforms
Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Oracle Certified Professional, PostgreSQL certification, ITIL Foundation, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert are preferred.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including technical documentation and executive-level reporting.
Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver effectively in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
Strong planning, organizational, stakeholder management, and project execution capabilities.
Detail-oriented, customer-focused approach with an emphasis on automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, Application Development, Data Engineering, and Cloud teams.
Ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable database solutions.
Proven experience delivering database automation, platform modernization, and cloud transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native database services.
Design and maintain highly available database architectures including clustering, replication, failover, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
Develop and maintain automation solutions for database provisioning, configuration management, schema deployments, patching, backup validation, and health monitoring.
Drive database platform modernization initiatives through scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and DevOps practices.
Design and develop APIs, utilities, and self-service capabilities to automate database operations and improve service delivery.
Implement and support cloud database services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, index management, and capacity planning activities.
Monitor database health, capacity, availability, and security using enterprise monitoring and reporting platforms.
Support database migration initiatives including on-premises to cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and version modernization projects.
Partner with software development teams to establish database standards, deployment pipelines, and data architecture best practices.
Build and maintain CI/CD integration for database changes, schema deployments, and platform automation workflows.
Troubleshoot complex database, application, cloud, infrastructure, and performance-related issues.
Develop operational dashboards, reports, and metrics utilizing Power BI, Grafana, or similar platforms.
Collaborate with Security Operations teams to implement database security controls, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
Maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, standards, and disaster recovery runbooks.
Participate in technology transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives across the enterprise.
Provide escalation support for Service Desk, Infrastructure, Production Support, and Application teams.