Jobgether
Lead Database Engineer
TLDR
Senior role securing and optimizing large-scale cloud databases (MSSQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL on AWS) with on-call operations, mentorship, and enterprise-grade reliability.
Accountabilities:
- Manage, maintain, and optimize MSSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases deployed across AWS cloud environments.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery readiness, backup, and restoration processes are fully operational and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning strategies for RDS and Aurora-based systems.
- Execute database installations, upgrades, schema changes, and production deployments while ensuring minimal disruption.
- Develop and enforce database security standards, access controls, and compliance practices across environments.
- Automate repetitive database operations and improve operational efficiency through scripting and tooling.
- Collaborate with DevOps, support, and engineering teams to resolve incidents, manage on-call responsibilities, and maintain SLAs.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor junior DBAs, and help define best practices for database operations and support.
- 12 plus years of IT experience with at least 10 plus years in database administration roles.
- Extensive hands-on experience with MSSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in AWS cloud services, particularly RDS, Aurora, EC2, IAM, and VPC.
- Solid experience in database performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
- Strong understanding of high availability and disaster recovery architectures for relational databases.
- Experience working with Linux and Windows server environments.
- Knowledge of SQL Server Reporting Services and ability to troubleshoot reporting issues.
- Experience with automation, scripting, and managing cloud-based database infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred.
- Experience in banking or financial services environments is an advantage.
- Competitive compensation aligned with senior database engineering roles.
- Remote work flexibility with structured global team collaboration.
- Health insurance coverage and employee wellness support.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, cloud-native database systems on AWS.
- Exposure to enterprise-grade financial systems with high availability requirements.
- Learning and certification support, including AWS and database technologies.
- Inclusive and collaborative engineering culture focused on ownership and excellence.
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How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
Competitive compensation aligned with senior database engineering roles.
Health Insurance
Health insurance coverage and employee wellness support.
Learning Budget
Learning and certification support, including AWS and database technologies.
Remote-Friendly
Remote work flexibility with structured global team collaboration.
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
Database Engineer