Senior Database Platform Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026.
Key Responsibilities :
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents related to AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Aurora PostgreSQL, and associated cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.
- Gauge the severity, urgency, and business impact of database and infrastructure incidents, driving timely resolution and stakeholder communication.
- Manage, maintain, and enhance database infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Design, implement, and support automation solutions for database provisioning, patching, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, and operational processes.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues and recommend permanent corrective actions to improve platform stability, performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Collaborate with application, cloud, security, and DevOps teams to support database-related requirements and ensure adherence to organizational standards.
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring.
- Manage and support AWS services related to database platforms, including CloudWatch, SNS, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Lambda, and other relevant services.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and security controls for database environments.
- Participate in database migrations, version upgrades, and cloud modernization initiatives.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities for automation, operational excellence, and cost optimization.
- Collaborate with global and cross-functional teams to ensure efficient operation, support, and delivery of database platform services.
Required Experience & Skills :
- 4 - 7 years of hands-on experience managing relational database platforms, preferably Aurora Postgres, RDS PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Strong experience managing AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL environments.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible.
- Strong understanding of database architecture, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, performance tuning, backup and recovery concepts.
- Good understanding of database objects including schemas, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, users, roles, and permissions.
- Experience performing database upgrades, migrations, patching, and disaster recovery activities.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services including IAM, CloudWatch, SNS, KMS, VPC, Security Groups, Lambda, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform incident analysis and root cause investigations.
- Knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for database and infrastructure monitoring.
- Understanding of change management, release management, and ITIL-based operational practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global team environment.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Candidates with experience in the following areas will have an added advantage :
1. AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Database Specialty, or equivalent).
2. Knowledge of Python or other scripting/programming languages for automation.
3. Experience with Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.
4. Familiarity with Jira, ServiceNow, and Agile delivery methodologies.
5. Exposure to database security, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls.
6. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.
7. Knowledge of NoSQL databases and modern cloud-native architectures.
8. Understanding of cost optimization and capacity planning within AWS environments.
Skills
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Terraform, Ansible, Database Performance Tuning, Amazon RDS, DBA, DB, IAC Terraform