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We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.\nFollowing the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery -from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively.\nSolvd is migrating a Tier-1 US payments platform from a single AWS region to a multi-region architecture.\nWe're hiring multiple Database Engineers to implement the DynamoDB replication, failover, and operational tooling for this program. 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Measure and report against RTO and RPO targets.\n\nImplement KMS cross-account replication, IAM service principals for replication roles, and the secrets and parameter strategy for region-local dependencies.\n\nSupport data extraction from the monolith into microservices: build CDC pipelines (DMS, DynamoDB Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium), validate data integrity, and own the cutover sequence for individual extractions.\n\nPair with application engineers on connection-string abstraction, retry and idempotency patterns, and graceful degradation during region failover.\n\nWrite design docs and runbooks the client team can take over after the engagement.\n\nWhat you'll bring (required)\n8+ years in production database engineering on AWS, with hands-on responsibility for at least one of: payments, banking, brokerage, or comparable financial-services workloads.\n\nDeep production experience with DynamoDB and at least two of: Aurora MySQL, Cassandra, ElastiCache (Redis or Valkey), DocumentDB, Neptune. Working knowledge of at least two more.\n\nPractical experience with cross-region replication in production using DynamoDB Global Tables: you've configured and operated multi-region DynamoDB deployments and handled failure scenarios such as replication conflicts, regional outages, replication delays, and consistency or version-skew issues.\n\nStrong Terraform (or CDK). You can build a multi-region module from scratch and explain the trade-offs.\n\nComfort with CDC tooling (DMS, DDB Streams, Kafka Connect, or Debezium) and the operational gotchas (schema drift, ordering guarantees, replay).\n\nLinux, networking fundamentals (VPC, Transit Gateway, peering, DNS), and IAM / KMS proficiency.\n\nSolid written communication and ability to operate in a regulated client environment.\n\nNice to have\nCassandra multi-DC operations experience at scale (nodetool workflows, repair strategy, tombstone management, cross-region anti-entropy).\n\nAWS MSK or Kafka MirrorMaker 2 experience for cross-region event replication.\n\nExperience with Datadog Database Monitoring and custom CloudWatch metrics.\n\nAWS Database Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate / Professional certifications.\n\nWhen you join Solvd, you'll…\nShape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation.\n\nBe part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures.\n\nThrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards.\n\nReady to make an impact?\nIf you're excited to build things that matter, champion responsible AI, and grow with some of the industry’s sharpest minds. 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