Senior Database Engineer in United

Job Description

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

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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.

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

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Responsibilities

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• Engineer and support highly available, business-critical SQL Server database environments.

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• Troubleshoot complex database performance, locking, blocking, resource, connectivity, and availability problems.

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• Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, schemas, statistics, and application data-access patterns.

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• Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed database services.

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• Help evaluate and execute longer-term transitions toward PostgreSQL and cloud- database platforms.

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• Build and improve database monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and operational tooling.

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• Support backup/recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and database lifecycle management.

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• Partner directly with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and production incidents.

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Role Requirements

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• Significant hands-on Microsoft SQL Server engineering/administration experience.

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• Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills.

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• Production experience supporting databases in AWS.

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• Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, EC2-based database environments, or related AWS database services.

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• Experience participating in database migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming initiatives.

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• Strong production-support and incident-resolution capabilities.

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• Experience automating database engineering or operational processes.

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• Ability to work broadly across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and operational concerns.

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• Comfortable working in a small engineering team where responsibilities are not heavily siloed.

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• Ability to work EST hours and participate in rotational production support.

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Nice to Have

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• PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.

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• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

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• SQL Server-to-PostgreSQL migration experience.

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• Azure SQL technologies.

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• Infrastructure as Code.

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• IDERA or comparable database monitoring platforms.

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