Database Engineer

- Design stable, reliable and effective databases

- Optimize and maintain legacy systems.

- Modify databases according to requests and perform tests

- Solve database usage issues and malfunctions

- Liaise with developers to improve applications and establish best practices

- Gather user requirements and identify new features

- Develop technical and training manuals

- Provide data management support to users.

- Plan and execute DB housekeeping work in maintaining the sanctity of all DBs.

- Ensure all database programs meet company and performance requirements

- Research and suggest new database products, services and protocols.

- Maintain security best practices from a database perspective.

- Identify areas for improvement through automation.

- Work in an Oncall model for critical production issues and support.

Requirement and skills:

- 5+ years of strong experience in DB engineering, administration and production

operations on cloud specifically AWS Aurora postgreSQL and RDS and any flavor of

NoSQL DBs.

- Ability to work with application and development teams in instilling DB best practices.

- Hands on experience in designing and architecting databases for the right use case

(SQL and NoSQL).

- Knowledge of Software development lifecycle and user facing applications with

distributed architecture.

- Excellent analytical, organizational and problem solving skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Hands on with Python / Bash or any scripting language to build custom automation.

- Prior experience working with PHI/PII data compliance standards.