{"id":1271820,"url":"https://alion.io/job/veradigm-principal-database-engineer-platform-engineer-2","title":"Principal Database Engineer (Platform Engineer)","company":{"id":3132,"name":"Veradigm","domain":"veradigm.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/allscripts","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.3,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":48,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US","CA"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":{"min":130241,"max":189502,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":189502},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon Aurora","optional":false},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Cosmos DB","optional":false},{"name":"Azure SQL Database","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"HIPAA","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T08:27:19Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Owns architecture, implementation, reliability, and lifecycle management of Veradigm’s database platform across multiple engines and cloud providers. Designs new database systems end-to-end - from inception through production - including engine and deployment-model selection, server and storage architecture, multi-cloud infrastructure, and high-availability and disaster-recovery posture. Owns 24×7 production reliability and serves as the final escalation point for major outages, complex performance incidents, and cross-team database 911s. Acts as senior technical authority and subject matter expert across multiple database technologies (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake) and across AWS and Azure. Sets technical direction for major platform initiatives, including AI-augmented database operations\nDetermines database architecture for new business use cases - including engine selection, deployment model (IaaS vs. PaaS), topology, sizing, integration patterns, and availability targets up to 99.99% (4 nines) - across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Snowflake.\nDesigns and implements multi-cloud database infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including server, storage, and network architecture tuned for top engine performance. Authors and reviews database infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) for provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle automation.\nOversees the security, integrity, and performance of databases across the production estate - including access controls, encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, HIPAA-aligned PHI protection, vulnerability management, and database integrity validation.\nImplements monitoring, observability, and alerting across all database systems and cloud platforms, delegates alert response to team members, and audits incident resolution. Leads complex performance triage and 911 response across product engineering teams.\nProvides technical leadership for peers and delegates tasks for both major and minor projects.\nIndependently implements and documents enhancement requests.\nIndependently reviews and approves technical design specifications.\nDesigns, audits, and tests high-availability and disaster-recovery architectures engineered to meet 99.99% (4 nines) availability SLAs - including cross-region failover, replication topology, RPO/RTO planning, immutable and air-gapped backup architectures for ransomware protection, point-in-time recovery, and validated restore drills.\nServes as final escalation point for database issues escalated by Database Engineers and by partner engineering teams - including production 911 incidents, complex performance investigations, and cross-team database-rooted problems across the full Veradigm engineering organization.\nIndependently owns multiple, concurrent minor or major database platform projects from concept to completion - including requirements gathering, architectural design, implementation, task delegation, schedule creation, deployment, testing, and handoff of the technology solution to the business.\nIndependently owns and is subject matter expert in multiple database technologies and cloud platforms - including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and Snowflake - and across managed (PaaS) and self-managed (IaaS) deployment models on both AWS and Azure. Sets technical direction for AI-augmented database operations, including LLM-assisted design, ML-driven anomaly detection, automated performance tuning, and natural-language operational tooling.\nJob Requirements\nEducation Level Education\nBachelor's Degree or equivalent Technical / Business experience\nMasters Degree - Preferred\nWork Experience\n10+ years relevant work experience; 2-3 years at the Expert level or equivalent experience - Preferred\nPreferred Certifications\nITIL Foundations\nMTA Database Fundamentals\nMCSA Database Administrator\nAzure Fundamentals Azure Data Fundamentals\nMicrosoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nAbility to work collaboratively with a team and receive constructive feedback from senior engineers\nAbility to provide excellent partnership and consultation to product and engineering teams who may not have deep database expertise.\nExpert knowledge of multiple database engines spanning relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), document and key-value stores (MongoDB, DynamoDB), and cloud data warehousing (Snowflake), including engine internals, configuration, and operational characteristics under production load.\nExpert knowledge of database performance monitoring, tuning, and triage at the engine, server, and storage layers across multiple platforms.\nExpert knowledge of database scripting and automation languages (T-SQL, PowerShell, Python, Bash) and of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) for database provisioning and lifecycle management.\nExpert knowledge of multi-cloud database engineering across AWS and Azure, including managed database services (RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB, Snowflake) and self-managed engine deployments on cloud compute. Expert knowledge of database server and storage architecture tuned for engine performance - instance class and CPU/memory profile selection, NUMA awareness, OS-level tuning, IOPS planning, volume type selection, and network architecture. Expert knowledge of designing database systems to high-availability SLAs of 99.99% (4 nines) and above, including cross-region failover automation, replication topology, RPO/RTO planning, ransomware-resilient backup architectures, and recovery validation.\nExpert knowledge of change management principles and the ability act as a proactive change agent\nExpert knowledge of project management\nWorking Arrangements\nStandard work week or as defined by assignment requirements\nPrimarily works in standard office environment or remotely\nMay require after-hours, on-call support and/or holidays\nOn-call and after hours work during peak times including end of month/quarter/year; during this time PTO is limited to meet business needs\nTravel\nUp to 10% travel may be required\nCompensation Range:\n$130,241-$189,502Compensation for this job is subject to market conditions, geographic considerations, the candidate’s unique skills and experience, state and local laws, and budget. Our commitment to pay transparency is a testament to our dedication to creating a fair, equitable, and inclusive workplace. By continuously analyzing market trends, staying abreast of changes in state laws, and making budgetary adjustments accordingly, we strive to ensure that our compensation practices reflect the value we place on our associates’ unique contributions and support their professional growth.\nEnhancing Lives and Building Careers\nVeradigm believes in empowering our associates with the tools and flexibility to bring the best version of themselves to work and to further their professional development. Together, we are In the Network. Interested in learning more?\nTake a look at our Culture, Benefits, Early Talent Program, and Additional Openings.\nVisa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.\nAt Veradigm, our greatest strength comes from bringing together talented people with diverse perspectives to support the needs of healthcare providers, life science companies, health plans, and the patients they serve. The Veradigm Network is a dynamic, open community of solutions, external partners, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies that provide advanced insights, technology, and data-driven solutions. Veradigm offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including holidays, vacation, medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life insurance and retirement savings.\nVeradigm’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in all of its employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, age, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. Applicants for North American based positions with Veradigm must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada. Verification of employment eligibility will be required as a condition of hire. Veradigm is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce.\nFrom a \"VEVRAA Federal Contractor\" We request Priority Referral of Protected Veterans\nThis is an official Veradigm Job posting. To avoid identity theft, please only consider applying to jobs posted on our official corporate site.\nThank you for reviewing this Veradigm opportunity. Does this look like a great match for your skill set? 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