Cloud Database Engineer

Cardinal Health; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Health Savings Account

401k savings plan

Flexible spending accounts

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to own reliability and uptime of WaveMark Solutions’ cloud databases. You will automate maintenance, deployments, and DR strategies while collaborating with security and development teams to improve data governance and compliance.

The role emphasizes performance optimization, observability, and scalable data movement in Kubernetes-based environments, with a remote US location and a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years managing production Oracle databases in regulated environments.
• Experience with Oracle DB administration in cloud platforms AWS RDS or GCP preferred.
• Knowledge of automation and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with observability and telemetry-driven operations.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in cloud environments.
• Build monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems for database health.
• Establish standards, docs, and runbooks for operations.
• Support deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize performance across prod and non-prod.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents.
• Automate database refreshes between environments.
• Implement data masking for non-prod environments.
• Collaborate on regulatory audits and data governance.

Skills

Oracle DBA

Cloud databases

Observability

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Oracle

AWS RDS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

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 closely with software development and IT teams driving automation, observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices.

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.

Compensation

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

Location

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

Application Window

Application window anticipated to close: 10/16/2026

Company Culture & Diversity

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 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.

Company Overview

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities. We are a crucial link between the clinical and operational sides of healthcare, delivering end‑to‑end solutions and data‑driving insights that advance healthcare and improve lives every day. With deep partnerships, diverse perspectives and innovative digital solutions, we build connections across the continuum of care. With more than 50 years of experience, we seize the opportunity to address healthcare's most complicated challenges — now, and in the future.

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