Cloud Database Engineer

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

MyFlexPay access to wages

FSAs

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. is hiring a Cloud Database Engineer to own reliability and uptime for WaveMark Solutions.

You will manage Oracle databases in cloud environments, build robust monitoring, and drive automation across deployments, with a focus on security and compliance in healthcare. The role supports a large healthcare SaaS platform, requiring collaboration with software development and IT teams to improve performance, data movement, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• 5+ years of Oracle database production management in a regulated environment preferred.
• Experience with Oracle DB administration and cloud platforms (AWS RDS or GCP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in cloud environments.
• Build and manage monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems for database health.
• Establish and maintain runbooks and operational standards.
• Support application deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize database performance across environments.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents.
• Automate database refresh between environments.
• Design data masking for non-production environments.
• Collaborate with security and compliance to support audits.
• Partner with security to enhance data governance and access controls.
• Collaborate with software teams to modernize deployment automation.
• Design backup, restore, replication, and DR strategies.

Skills

Oracle DBA experience

Observability frameworks

SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs)

Database automation

Scripting

CI/CD

Kubernetes experience

Security/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD platforms

Terraform

Job description

For more than 20 years, Cardinal Health™ WaveMark™ Solutions has helped health systems automate and simplify clinical and supply chain workflows, enabling clinicians to spend less time managing supplies and more time focused on patient care. WaveMark™ Solutions is a leading SaaS-based clinical supply chain and workflow management platform that helps healthcare providers optimize the management of medical supplies across the continuum of care. By combining advanced technologies such as RFID and barcode tracking, cloud-based software, predictive analytics, and automated inventory management with expert support services, WaveMark delivers real-time visibility and control over supplies ranging from everyday consumables to high-value implants and devices. Its solutions support operating rooms, procedural labs, clinical laboratories, and nursing units, connecting product usage to the patient record at the point of care while providing actionable insights that improve product availability, streamline clinical workflows, enhance patient safety, reduce costs, and strengthen overall financial and operational performance across health systems.

Job Summary

The Cloud Database Engineer is responsible for supporting a large, mission-critical healthcare application known as WaveMark Solutions. This role will own production and non-production reliability and uptime, performance, security, automation of routine maintenance tasks and deployments, and backup and disaster recovery strategies for cloud databases. You will be working closelywith software development and IT teams driving automation, observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices.

Location:

This is a remote position, and candidates must be located within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in managed cloud environments.
• Build and manage intelligent monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems to proactively track database health.
• Establish and maintain operational standards, documentation, and runbooks.
• Support application deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize database performance across production and non-production environments.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents.
• Design, execute, and automate database refresh processes between production and non-production environments.
• Design and implement repeatable data masking processes for non-production environments.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and application teams to support regulatory audits.
• Partner with security teams to enhance and enforce data governance, patching, secret management, and access controls.
• Partner with software development teams to modernize deployment automation and collaborate on modern data movement architectures.
• Design and test backup, restore, replication, and failure strategies to meet business recovery time and recovery point objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• 5+ years of experience managing production Oracle databases in a regulated healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience of Oracle database administration and cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS or GCP preferred.
• Knowledge of database automation, scripting, and deployment processes preferred.
• Familiarity implementing observability frameworks and telemetry-driven operations preferred.
• Knowledge of site reliability engineering principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and automated remediation) preferred.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure as Code preferred.
• Understanding of healthcare compliance standards, such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, or HITRUST preferred.
• Familiarity with change data capture (CDC) technologies preferred.
• Experience supporting databases and applications in Kubernetes-based environments preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills preferred.

Anticipated salary range:

$96,300 - $137,600

Bonus eligible:

No

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close:

10/16/2026

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.