Cloud-Driven Database Engineer: Automation & Modernization

OpenTalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares is seeking a Database Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support enterprise database platforms. The role focuses on modernizing the data platform and database services across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Ideal candidates will have hands‑on experience with multi‑vendor databases, automation, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud hosted database services. Join a growing Infrastructure Engineering team driving modernization and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering, automating, and supporting medium to large enterprise database environments.
• Strong background in database engineering, software development, automation, cloud services, and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native services.
• Design and maintain highly available database architectures with clustering, replication, and DR solutions.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, schema deployments, patching, backups, and health monitoring.

Skills

Automation

DevOps

Cloud services

IaC

CI/CD

Database design

Performance tuning

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

Azure

Job description

Ares is seeking a Database Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support enterprise database platforms. The role focuses on modernizing the data platform and database services across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Ideal candidates will have hands‑on experience with multi‑vendor databases, automation, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud hosted database services. Join a growing Infrastructure Engineering team driving modernization and reliability.