Manager, Database Automation

Point72 • New York, NY

5h • $250,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.
As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, and infrastructure automation roles.
• Strong experience delivering automation for relational and/or NoSQL database technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Kafka.
• Hands-on expertise with scripting and automation frameworks such as Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated deployment patterns.
• Strong knowledge of observability tooling and operational monitoring design.
• Experience managing backup/recovery solutions, patching pipelines, and automated lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage projects, and collaborate across engineering and business groups.
• Excellent communication skills and passion for building scalable, reliable, self-service platforms.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, design, and implementation of automation and self‑service capabilities for enterprise database platforms.
• Own the roadmap for services including provisioning, lifecycle management, patching and upgrade automation, backup and recovery orchestration, and automated compliance controls.
• Champion observability by delivering monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance visibility solutions across database environments.
• Build and evolve frameworks for standardized access control and least privilege automation.
• Partner with database engineering, infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned to business objectives.
• Establish architectural standards, reusable tooling, and automation best practices.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a technical team focused on reliable and scalable platform engineering.
• Drive continuous improvement, identifying opportunities to reduce toil and increase platform efficiency.

Benefits

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees