Senior Database Engineer

A healthcare technology organization is hiring Senior Database Engineers to support and modernize a business-critical database environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep Microsoft SQL Server experience who also understands cloud database environments. The organization is beginning a longer-term modernization initiative that will move database workloads into AWS and increasingly leverage managed and PostgreSQL-based database technologies.

The successful candidate will combine strong production DBA fundamentals with cloud engineering, automation, observability, performance optimization, and migration experience.

Responsibilities

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• Engineer and support highly available, business-critical SQL Server database environments.\n
• Troubleshoot complex database performance, locking, blocking, resource, connectivity, and availability problems.\n
• Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, schemas, statistics, and application data-access patterns.\n
• Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed database services.\n
• Help evaluate and execute longer-term transitions toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database platforms.\n
• Build and improve database monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and operational tooling.\n
• Support backup/recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and database lifecycle management.\n
• Partner directly with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and production incidents.\n

Role Requirements

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• Significant hands-on Microsoft SQL Server engineering/administration experience.\n
• Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills.\n
• Production experience supporting databases in AWS.\n
• Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, EC2-based database environments, or related AWS database services.\n
• Experience participating in database migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming initiatives.\n
• Strong production-support and incident-resolution capabilities.\n
• Experience automating database engineering or operational processes.\n
• Ability to work broadly across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and operational concerns.\n
• Comfortable working in a small engineering team where responsibilities are not heavily siloed.\n
• Ability to work EST hours and participate in rotational production support.\n

Nice to Have

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• PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.\n
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.\n
• SQL Server-to-PostgreSQL migration experience.\n
• Azure SQL technologies.\n
• Infrastructure as Code.\n
• IDERA or comparable database monitoring platforms.\n