Cloud Database Administrator & DBRE (Terraform)

HappyGlobal Service; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

H-1B sponsorship

Equal Employment Opportunity

Job summary

HappyGlobal Service seeks a skilled Database Administrator/DBRE to own day-to-day operations, monitoring, and reliability of cloud and local databases in our US branch. You will drive stability, performance, and compliance with data privacy regulations in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include cloud and local DB management, back-up and DR planning, performance tuning, and maintaining HA architectures while enforcing security controls and RBAC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered, 3+ years DBA/DBRE.
• Strong MySQL or PostgreSQL expertise; Redis/SQL Server/Oracle a plus.
• Cloud exposure with AWS or GCP and IaC (Terraform).
• Scripting in Python or Shell for automation.
• Observability and monitoring experience.
• English proficiency for cross-team collaboration.
• Authorized to work in the United States; H-1B sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Operations: Manage cloud and local databases (AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL Server).
• Reliability Engineering: Define and measure DBRE SLOs; enhance monitoring and IaC automation with Terraform.
• Backup & DR: Define backup strategies and conduct regular recovery drills.
• Performance Optimization: Review SQL, optimize slow queries, plan indexes and tune parameters.
• High Availability: Maintain HA architectures via replication, clustering, and failover.
• Data Security & Compliance: Implement RBAC, auditing, encryption, masking; enforce security policies.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with development, SRE, and security teams to drive database automation.

Skills

DBA/DBRE experience

English communication

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS/Aurora

GCP Cloud SQL

Redis

SQL Server

Oracle

Monitoring tools

Python

Shell

Job description

HappyGlobal Service seeks a skilled Database Administrator/DBRE to own day-to-day operations, monitoring, and reliability of cloud and local databases in our US branch. You will drive stability, performance, and compliance with data privacy regulations in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include cloud and local DB management, back-up and DR planning, performance tuning, and maintaining HA architectures while enforcing security controls and RBAC.