Cloud Database Engineer II — CI/CD, IaC & HA

Stryker Corporation; Frisco (TX); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time

Company paid basic life insurance

Voluntary life insurance

Parental leave

401k plan with 3% match

Flexible spending and health savings

Wellness offerings

Job summary

AXS is seeking a Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize scalable data solutions for our products. You will shape relational and NoSQL databases, integrate deployments into CI/CD pipelines, and drive secure, automated infrastructure for database provisioning.

Join a team focusing on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in a cloud-first environment, with opportunities to advance across data platforms and engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as a Database Engineer/DBA with 3+ years in DevOps/Cloud environments.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Aurora and related tools.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Cloud platform expertise (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP a plus).
• Strong security, encryption, auditing, and Kafka knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain relational and NoSQL databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aurora, MongoDB).
• Integrate database deployments into CI/CD pipelines for migrations, rollback, and testing.
• Develop and manage IaC for database provisioning (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging for database health and security.
• Optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans for performance and cost.
• Manage high availability, replication, backup, and DR strategies.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and DevOps for secure app-to-db integration.
• Enforce security best practices, including encryption and KMS/CMK access control.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause analysis.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

Aurora

MongoDB

Liqbase

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS

KMS/CMK

Kafka

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS

Azure

Kafka

Job description

AXS is seeking a Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize scalable data solutions for our products. You will shape relational and NoSQL databases, integrate deployments into CI/CD pipelines, and drive secure, automated infrastructure for database provisioning.

Join a team focusing on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency in a cloud-first environment, with opportunities to advance across data platforms and engineering practices.