Cloud Database Reliability Engineer: Automation & IaC

Alexander Technology Group; Dedham (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Interra Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to transform production databases from reactive administration to automated, cloud-scale reliability engineering. You will replace manual tuning and firefighting with self‑tuning indexes, policy‑as‑code access controls, and an IaC‑driven fleet across regions and clouds.

The role focuses on automating performance profiling, centralized observability, and audit‑friendly security, enabling scalable data platforms for a fast‑growing SaaS business.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years administering/optimizing production relational databases.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS).
• Familiarity with policy-as-code, auditing, and PHI/compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own database performance and reliability with automated profiling and self-tuning indexing.
• Codify schema-change guardrails into CI/CD pipelines for safe deployments.
• Implement policy-as-code access controls with audit trails for PHI/compliance.
• Lead centralized, IaC-provisioned observability across regions/clouds.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to deploy APM/tracing and SLO-driven alerting.
• Automate backups, patching, and self-healing database fleet.

Skills

Database performance tuning

Indexing

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Policy-as-code

Observability

Security/compliance PHI

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

New Relic

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Interra Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to transform production databases from reactive administration to automated, cloud-scale reliability engineering. You will replace manual tuning and firefighting with self‑tuning indexes, policy‑as‑code access controls, and an IaC‑driven fleet across regions and clouds.

The role focuses on automating performance profiling, centralized observability, and audit‑friendly security, enabling scalable data platforms for a fast‑growing SaaS business.