AWS Database Engineer

Position: SRE/DevOps with Database

Location: Hyderabad/ Remote

Experience: 9+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate

Budget 25-30 LPA

Required Technical Skills

• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Amazon Aurora MySQL
• Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• MongoDB Atlas
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• DynamoDB
• Amazon Redshift
• Redis (Elasticache)

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end administration of enterprise databases across Production and Non-Production AWS environments.
• Lead complex database migration initiatives using AWS DMS, snapshot sharing, replication, and cloud-native migration strategies with minimal downtime.
• Administer multiple database platforms including Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas, DynamoDB, Redshift, and Redis.
• Design, provision, and maintain database infrastructure for new applications and environment onboarding.
• Collaborate with application, Cloud, DBA, Security, Network, DevOps, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available database solutions.
• Support business-critical production deployments, release activities, change requests, emergency production incidents, and post-deployment validation.
• Optimize database performance through execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, query tuning, partitioning, vacuuming, workload analysis, and database health assessments.
• Lead application performance improvement initiatives by collaborating with AWS, MongoDB vendors, DBAs, and application teams to identify and eliminate database bottlenecks.
• Improved Promotion Engine batch processing performance by reducing MongoDB and DynamoDB synchronization time from approximately 5 hours to nearly 1 hour through database tuning, indexing, and workload optimization.
• Build and maintain monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Grafana, and operational dashboards.
• Drive cloud cost optimization by identifying idle resources, rightsizing infrastructure, deleting unused resources, and consolidating database environments.
• Implement database security best practices, including credential rotation, encryption, access governance, and compliance with organizational security standards.
• Manage backup, recovery, snapshot management, disaster recovery, replication, and high-availability solutions for enterprise databases.
• Support cloud modernization initiatives through database migrations, platform upgrades, and architectural improvements.
• Design and troubleshoot secure database connectivity using PrivateLink, VPC Endpoints, firewall rules, NAT Gateway, and network security controls.
• Evaluate and implement Proof of Concepts (POCs) to improve migration strategies, database performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Lead root cause analysis and troubleshooting for complex production issues involving databases, infrastructure, and application integrations.
• Ensure database availability, scalability, reliability, and performance for mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Automate operational tasks and standardize database administration processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Perform capacity planning, infrastructure lifecycle management, and proactive health assessments by monitoring CPU, memory, I/O, storage utilization, replication lag, dead tuples, and long-running queries.
• Evaluate and implement new cloud database technologies and architectural enhancements aligned with business objectives.
• Manage application configurations, secrets, service accounts, and credential management to support secure and reliable application deployments.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation, cloud provisioning, platform standardization, and CI/CD support to improve operational efficiency and release reliability.
• Develop monitoring dashboards, operational best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability and service reliability.