United States onlyFor our client, a global consultancy company, with a strong focus on digital learning and educational innovation, we are looking for a Senior DevOps&DBA Engineer.
Location: Romania/Poland
Work model: fully remote
Type of collaboration: B2B
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of AWS Relational Database Services (RDS), with a strong focus on automation, scalability, and performance optimization. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability, security, and operational excellence across our cloud-based data infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Manage the lifecycle of AWS RDS, including provisioning, monitoring, patching, and decommissioning.
Work with AWS Aurora and PostgreSQL to support business-critical applications.
Lead database migration projects.
Analyze and optimize execution plans and queries to improve performance and efficiency.
Oversee backend storage management, ensuring scalability and cost-efficiency.
Develop and implement disaster recovery and high availability strategies.
Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for incidents and implement long-term fixes.
Create and maintain handbooks, runbooks, and technical documentation.
Support incident resolution and assist teams in epic creation and problem-solving.
Perform operational tasks, including incident handling and on-call support as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications
1. Absolute must:
(Best Practice) Lifecycle Management of AWS Relational Database Service
Analysis and consulting on execution plans and queries
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Crossplane
CI/CD pipeline configuration and management.
2. Secondary, but important:
Monitoring metrics in Prometheus/Grafana and integration with MS Teams
Logging infrastructure (ELK, CloudWatch)
Backend storage management and adjustments (scaling)
Disaster recovery and high availability strategies.
3. Optional:
Conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations
Contributing to manuals, runbooks, and other documentation
Independent analysis and resolution of problems, as well as collaborating with the team on epics
Routine operational tasks including incident handling.
What you bring
A completed degree with an IT-related focus
At least 3–5 years of professional experience in IT or banking with an IT connection
A strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code tooling (Crossplane, Terraform, Ansible)
Expertise in technical and architectural evaluation of implementation proposals
Several years of experience with AWS Aurora, RedShift, GitLab, Oracle databases, and database migrations, as well as permission management using IAM tools.
