Senior Cloud Data Ops Engineer

Granite Telecommunications • Quincy, MA

1d • $140,000 - $180,000

About The Position

The Cloud Data Ops team is hiring a Senior Cloud DBA & Data Platform Engineer to support mission-critical relational and time-series data systems across multiple clouds. The role combines hands-on database administration across SQL Server, Postgres (including TimescaleDB), and Oracle with cloud-native operations in GCP and AWS. Work includes performance tuning, platform operations, automation, reliability, and cost efficiency across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on DBA experience with SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, and TimescaleDB.
• Deep proficiency in SQL, performance tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
• Experience operating databases in GCP (CloudSQL, BigQuery, GCE/GCVE) and/or AWS (RDS/Aurora).
• Solid Linux skills, including bash scripting and system-level troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as pg_stat views, Query Store, Cloud Monitoring, CloudWatch, Zabbix, or Datadog.
• Ability to support mission-critical production systems in a multi-cloud environment.
• Strong understanding of DBA fundamentals applied in cloud-native and time-series contexts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps (ADO), or other CI/CD/IaC tooling.
• Exposure to EKS, GKE, or other Kubernetes platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized database operations.
• Experience with OCI or Oracle Cloud services.
• Background in cloud migration, modernization, or hybrid cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch, back up, restore, and secure SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, and TimescaleDB environments, including high availability and disaster recovery.
• Diagnose and tune database performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, wait-event analysis, and I/O profiling.
• Optimize relational and time-series workloads, including TimescaleDB hypertables, chunk management, retention policies, and compression strategies.
• Implement schema changes, index strategies, and query rewrites to improve workload efficiency.
• Support database lifecycle management across on-premises, GCVE, and cloud-native platforms.
• Partner with application, analytics, and engineering teams to optimize database-driven workloads.
• Operate and optimize workloads on CloudSQL, BigQuery, AWS RDS/Aurora, and GCVE-hosted SQL Server.
• Support migrations from on-premises or VM-based SQL Server, Oracle, and Postgres to managed cloud services.
• Implement observability across cloud platforms using monitoring, logs, metrics, and traces.
• Participate in multi-cloud operational readiness, incident response, and performance engineering.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux-based Postgres, TimescaleDB, and Oracle environments.
• Tune system resources, including CPU, memory, I/O, and kernel parameters, to support database performance.
• Support containerized and orchestrated environments, including Docker, EKS, and GKE, where applicable.
• Automate DBA and operational tasks using bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and infrastructure automation.
• Improve reliability through scripting, monitoring, alerting, and self-service tooling.
• Participate in on-call rotations for critical data systems.

Benefits

• Position is eligible for a bonus.
• Onsite fully equipped gyms for employees at zero cost.
• Health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Childcare benefits.
• Tuition assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed