Cloud Database Engineer II - AWS, PostgreSQL & MySQL

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

C&R Software is seeking a mid-senior Database Engineer to join the Database Operations group, based in Santiago, Chile. You will manage MSSQL, MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL in AWS, optimize performance, and implement secure, scalable database solutions.

Responsibilities include backups, capacity planning, on-call rotation, and mentoring junior DBAs within a banking/financial services context. Strong communication and cloud expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of IT industry experience.
• 5+ years in database administration roles in MSSQL, MySQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge and experience of plan management in PostgreSQL.
• Excellent communication skills including verbal and writing skills.
• Experience in Banking or Financial Industry is preferred.
• AWS certified professional with experience in RDS, IAM, EC2, VPC and Storage.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, and manage database servers and schemas.
• Set and maintain enterprise database standards.
• Manage database access and Develop processes for optimizing database security.
• Performance tuning of database systems particularly RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Create database backups and restore database from backups.
• Plan capacity for database servers.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot database errors.
• Create and manage database reports, visualizations, and dashboards.
• Automate repeating database tasks.
• Experience as a DBA with AWS Cloud databases MSSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Monitor database incidents queue and act based on priority.
• Implement and deploy database changes in Prod and QA environments.
• Monitor MSSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database performance issues and resolve them.
• Interact with other DBA team members, product support team, and DevOps CSM and keep them aware of critical issues at hand.
• Onsite team member to understand project requirements and goals.
• Report progress status to team manager various database support tickets and other projects.
• Manage, maintain, and secure RDS Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL databases.
• Understand the PL SQL scripts provided in the change and be able to make a call if scripts are not well performant or not correct.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SSRS issues.
• Proactive and take ownership of highly visible issues and projects.
• Establish partnership with other teams and drive projects.
• Able to provide database level technical leadership and mentor junior DBAs.
• Establish database support standards to help in the areas of database support with minimal interruptions.
• 24x7x365 on call support on rotation basis.

Skills

SQL Server

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

SSRS

Linux

Windows Server

Job description

C&R Software is seeking a mid-senior Database Engineer to join the Database Operations group, based in Santiago, Chile. You will manage MSSQL, MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL in AWS, optimize performance, and implement secure, scalable database solutions.

Responsibilities include backups, capacity planning, on-call rotation, and mentoring junior DBAs within a banking/financial services context. Strong communication and cloud expertise are essential.