Cloud Database Engineer - AWS & Azure | HA/DR Champion

Pho Prime, LLC; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/401K/RSP (country specific)

Competitive Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Company Holidays

Volunteering time

Job summary

Subway is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and security posture at scale.

You will collaborate with development and cloud teams to design schemas, plan capacity, and drive migrations while maintaining runbooks and standards.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of DBA experience in large enterprises, strong Terraform and Azure SQL skills, plus AI/ML driven performance optimization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database administration experience in an enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of Windows system administration.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and manage cloud database services including Azure SQL Database.
• Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery configurations for all database platforms.
• Monitor database performance; identify and resolve bottlenecks through query tuning and index optimization.
• Enforce database security standards including encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and audit logging.
• Manage database backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery procedures; conduct regular DR tests.
• Collaborate with application and architecture teams on schema design, capacity planning, and migrations.
• Develop and maintain database runbooks, standards documentation, and change management procedures.
• Evaluate emerging cloud database technologies and provide recommendations for platform improvements.
• Coach Infrastructure colleagues on Active Directory and vulnerability remediation best practices.

Skills

Database administration

Windows system administration

Query optimization

HA/DR design

Index design

Security best practices

AI/ML for performance

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Azure SQL Database

SQL Server

Job description

Subway is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to administer and optimize cloud database platforms across AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and security posture at scale.

You will collaborate with development and cloud teams to design schemas, plan capacity, and drive migrations while maintaining runbooks and standards.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of DBA experience in large enterprises, strong Terraform and Azure SQL skills, plus AI/ML driven performance optimization.