Cloud Database Platform Engineer

Webhosting; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DigiCert is seeking a Cloud Database Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable database platforms across AWS and distributed environments. The role emphasizes platform engineering, automation, reliability, and performance at scale.

You will own database infrastructure as code and partner closely with engineering teams to optimize data architecture and operational excellence. You will design and manage AWS RDS/Aurora environments, operate Cassandra clusters, and build reusable

Qualifications

• 3+ years in database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS RDS / Aurora in production.
• Experience with distributed databases such as Cassandra.
• Terraform expertise for infrastructure as code.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS RDS and Aurora environments across multi-region setups.
• Operate and optimize Apache Cassandra clusters in distributed environments.
• Build and maintain database infrastructure using Terraform as a core practice.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for provisioning, networking, security, and DR policies.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies (multi-AZ, replicas, cross-region failover).
• Define and enforce database platform standards and monitoring.
• Optimize performance through tuning and indexing strategies.
• Build observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic.
• Automate workflows and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Support migrations (on-prem → AWS, RDBMS → Cassandra where applicable).
• Collaborate on schema design, data modeling, and scalability patterns.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident analysis.

Tools

AWS RDS / Aurora

Terraform

Apache Cassandra

CI/CD pipelines

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

High availability & DR

Job description

Job Description

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com

Job summary

We are looking for a Cloud Database Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, highly available database platforms across AWS and distributed environments. This role goes beyond traditional DBA responsibilities – focusing on platform engineering, automation, reliability, and performance at scale. You will own database infrastructure as code, drive standardization, and partner closely with engineering teams to optimize data architecture and operational excellence.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS RDS and Aurora environments (Aurora, MariaDB, Postgres).
• Operate and optimize Apache Cassandra clusters in distributed, multi-region environments.
• Build and maintain database infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) as a core practice.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for RDS provisioning, Networking and security configurations and Backup and DR policies.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies (multi-AZ, replicas, cross-region failover).
• Define and enforce database platform standards (provisioning, configuration, monitoring).
• Optimize performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, parameter tuning.
• Build observability and monitoring solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic).
• Automate operational workflows and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Support database migrations (on-prem → AWS, RDBMS → Cassandra where applicable).
• Partner with engineering teams on schema design, data modeling and scalability patterns.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response and root cause analysis.

What you will have

• 3+ years in database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS / Aurora (production environments), Terraform (required, not optional).
• Experience working with distributed databases (e.g. Cassandra).
• Deep understanding of High availability & DR strategies, Performance tuning, Capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of AWS ecosystem RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code at scale (e.g. Terraform modules, State management, CI/CD integration).
• Strong troubleshooting and production incident management skills.