Cloud DBRE & Database Reliability Engineer (AWS/GCP) Onsite

HappyGlobal Service; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HappyGlobal Service is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA / DBRE) to oversee day-to-day operations, monitoring, and reliability of cloud and local database environments. You will collaborate with development, SRE, and security teams to build scalable, secure, and automated database infrastructure.

The role emphasizes managing AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, and on-premises databases, implementing SLOs, disaster recovery, and performance tuning in a fast-growing tech environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in Database Administration or DBRE.
• Strong experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL including HA configurations.
• Experience with cloud databases (AWS RDS/Aurora or GCP Cloud SQL).
• Experience with IaC (Terraform) and scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations, monitoring, and reliability of cloud and local databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL Server).
• Define and maintain database SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and reliability standards with IaC (Terraform).
• Develop backup, disaster recovery, and recovery-testing strategies to meet RPO/RTO.
• Optimize database performance via SQL tuning, index planning, and capacity management.
• Maintain highly available architectures through replication, clustering, and failover.
• Implement and enforce database security controls (RBAC, encryption, auditing, masking).
• Automate provisioning and operations using Terraform, Python, and Shell.
• Collaborate with development, SRE, security, and other teams to improve reliability.

Skills

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT

Tools

Terraform

Python

Shell

Monitoring tools

Job description

HappyGlobal Service is seeking a Database Administrator (DBA / DBRE) to oversee day-to-day operations, monitoring, and reliability of cloud and local database environments. You will collaborate with development, SRE, and security teams to build scalable, secure, and automated database infrastructure.

The role emphasizes managing AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, and on-premises databases, implementing SLOs, disaster recovery, and performance tuning in a fast-growing tech environment.