Database Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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.