Cloud Database Engineer II

TALENT Software Services; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cloud Certifications

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a Cloud Database Analyst II to join our data platform team. You will lead cloud data migration efforts, design high availability, and optimize cloud-hosted relational databases across regions.

You will implement backup/recovery strategies, tune complex SQL queries, and collaborate with DevOps to automate infrastructure via IaC while ensuring security compliance and performance benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Cloud data migration and CI/CD experience.
• Agile experience; Jira/Confluence familiarity.
• Lead database migrations and lift-and-shift deployments.
• Design HA, backup/DR across regions.
• Expertise in backup/recovery, replication, failover.
• Hands-on with AWS/Azure/GCP cloud databases.
• Strong SQL tuning and complex queries.
• IaC tools: Terraform, ARM, CF.
• Security frameworks: NIST 800-53, FedRAMP.
• Enforce cloud security (IAM, VPC, data classification).
• Data security/encryption and compliance (HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP).
• Monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, SolarWinds, Redgate).

Responsibilities

• Define business and technical requirements for cloud-based data solutions.
• Manage and optimize cloud-hosted databases (AWS RDS / Azure SQL).
• Write and tune SQL queries; monitor performance.
• Assist planning sessions; automate routine tasks.

Skills

Cloud migration

CI/CD

Agile (Jira/Confluence)

Lift-and-shift deployment

HA/DR design

Backup and recovery

Cross-region availability

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SQL tuning

IaC (Terraform/ARM/CF)

Security compliance

Monitoring tools

Data security encryption

Tools

CloudWatch

Azure Monitor

SolarWinds

Redgate

Job description

TALENT Software Services is seeking a Cloud Database Analyst II to join our data platform team. You will lead cloud data migration efforts, design high availability, and optimize cloud-hosted relational databases across regions.

You will implement backup/recovery strategies, tune complex SQL queries, and collaborate with DevOps to automate infrastructure via IaC while ensuring security compliance and performance benchmarks.