Senior Cloud Data Ops Engineer

Granite Telecommunications • Quincy, MA

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About The Position

he Cloud Data Ops team is hiring a Senior Cloud DBA & Data Platform Engineer who
brings deep, hands-on DBA expertise across SQL Server, Postgres (w/Timescale)
and Oracle, combined with strong cloud-native skills in GCP and AWS. This role
is responsible for performance tuning, cloud platform operations, automation,
and ensuring the reliability of mission-critical relational and time-series data
systems across multiple clouds.

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 (pg_stat views, Query Store, Cloud Monitoring, CloudWatch, Zabbix, Datadog, etc.).
• 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

• Perform advanced DBA duties including installation, configuration, patching, backup/restore, HA/DR, and security hardening across SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, and TimescaleDB.
• Diagnose and tune performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, wait event analysis, and I/O profiling.
• Optimize relational and time series workloads, including hypertables, chunk management, retention policies, and compression strategies in TimescaleDB.
• Implement schema changes, index strategies, and query rewrites to improve workload efficiency.
• Support database lifecycle management across on prem, 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.
• Apply DBA fundamentals to cloud native services, ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Support migrations from on prem/VM based SQL Server, Oracle, and Postgres to managed cloud services.
• Implement observability across cloud platforms (Cloud Monitoring, CloudWatch, logs, metrics, traces).
• Participate in multi cloud operational readiness, incident response, and performance engineering.
• Manage and troubleshoot Linux based Postgres, TimescaleDB, and Oracle environments.
• Perform system level tuning (CPU, memory, I/O, kernel parameters) to support database performance.
• Support containerized and orchestrated environments (Docker, EKS, GKE) where applicable.
• Automate DBA and operational tasks using bash, PowerShell, or Python.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and infrastructure automation (Terraform preferred).
• Improve reliability through scripting, monitoring, alerting, and self service tooling.
• Participate in on call rotations for critical data systems.

Benefits

• Granite has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of the "Healthiest Companies" in Massachusetts for the past 15 consecutive years.
• Our offices have onsite fully equipped state of the art gyms for employees at zero cost.
• Granite's philanthropy is unparalleled with over $300 million in donations to organizations such as Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The ALS Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association to name a few.
• We have been consistently rated a "Fastest Growing Company" by Inc. Magazine.
• Granite was named to Forbes List of America's Best Employers 2022, 2023 and 2024.
• Granite was recently named One of Forbes Best Employers for Diversity.
• Our company's insurance package includes health, dental, vision, life, disability coverage, 401K retirement with company match, childcare benefits, tuition assistance, and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees