DataArt-posted 30 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Belgrade, MT
5,001-10,000 employees
Publishing Industries

You will join a high-impact engineering team responsible for building and operating our mission-critical data platform on Aurora PostgreSQL. The environment supports real-time applications, large-scale transactional workloads, and strict security/compliance requirements. Your work will focus on improving the platform's performance, reliability, scalability, and security, while leading complex database engineering initiatives such as major version upgrades, schema modernisation, cross-region resilience, and zero-downtime migrations. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Database Engineer with administration and development skills to join a small and friendly team of Database Engineers responsible for managing business critical databases hosted in AWS. The Database Administration (DBA) team is committed to ensuring optimal system performance, reliability, data integrity, and security, while maintaining 24/7 availability of customer data across diverse database platforms. AWS RDS Aurora Postgres, AWS RDS MySQL, SQL Server hosted on AWS EC2, WSFC, AlwaysOn, RedGate tools, Terraform, Jira

  • Own the architecture, performance, availability, security, and lifecycle of our Aurora PostgreSQL platform.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives: major version upgrades, large-scale migrations, schema redesign & refactoring, performance optimization and tuning, HA/DR design and enhancements
  • Serve as the final-tier escalation point for all Aurora PostgreSQL-related incidents and performance bottlenecks.
  • Define, implement, and enforce database standards, security policies, and operational best practices.
  • Develop automation, tooling, and repeatable workflows for operations and monitoring.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, conduct deep root-cause analysis, and deliver preventative fixes.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Aurora PostgreSQL in production (large, mission-critical clusters)
  • Expertise in: Multi-AZ, replicas, replication, extensions, partitioning, vacuum, performance tuning
  • Proven delivery of major upgrades, blue/green deployments, zero-downtime migrations
  • Strong SQL, PL/pgSQL, Python; automation mindset
  • Solid AWS knowledge: Aurora, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3
  • Confident working with sensitive data (GDPR or similar)
  • Comfortable executing production changes safely
  • SQL Server on EC2 (AlwaysOn, WSFC)
  • MySQL / RDS / Aurora MySQL
  • AWS certifications
  • Terraform or similar IaC
  • Monitoring tools (Redgate Monitor, CloudWatch)
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