Database Engineer

Ares Management; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ares Management is seeking a highly skilled Database Engineer to design, implement, automate, and support enterprise database platforms within our Infrastructure Engineering team.

You will work with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native services, develop automation for provisioning and patching, and build CI/CD pipelines to modernize the data platform.

Collaborate with software teams and Security Operations to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years managing enterprise database platforms.
• Strong experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and/or MySQL; Azure variants.
• Proven automation skills using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs.
• DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins; IaC practices.
• Cloud database solutions in Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
• Security, encryption, and compliance fundamentals in databases.
• Experience with monitoring, performance tuning, and data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms.
• Design highly available architectures with clustering, replication, backup, and DR.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, schema deployments, and health monitoring.
• Drive modernization initiatives via IaC and DevOps practices.
• Develop APIs and tools to automate database operations.
• Implement and support cloud database services across Azure and hybrid clouds.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, index management, and capacity planning.
• Monitor health, capacity, availability, and security using enterprise platforms.
• Collaborate with software teams to establish standards and pipelines.
• Build CI/CD integration for database changes and platform automation workflows.

Skills

Database engineering

Automation

DevOps practices

Python

PowerShell

REST APIs

Cloud services

CI/CD

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MySQL

Azure SQL Database

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values - Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy - and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated Database Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise database platforms. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for modernizing and transforming the firm's data platform and database services.

Candidates must have hands-on experience administering, automating, and supporting medium to large enterprise database environments. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in database engineering, software development, automation, cloud services, and platform engineering. Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, database lifecycle management, and cloud-hosted database services is highly desirable.

Reporting relationships

Reports to: Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering

Supervises: None

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native database services.
• Design and maintain highly available database architectures including clustering, replication, failover, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions for database provisioning, configuration management, schema deployments, patching, backup validation, and health monitoring.
• Drive database platform modernization initiatives through scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and DevOps practices.
• Design and develop APIs, utilities, and self-service capabilities to automate database operations and improve service delivery.
• Implement and support cloud database services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, index management, and capacity planning activities.
• Monitor database health, capacity, availability, and security using enterprise monitoring and reporting platforms.
• Support database migration initiatives including on-premises to cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and version modernization projects.
• Partner with software development teams to establish database standards, deployment pipelines, and data architecture best practices.
• Build and maintain CI/CD integration for database changes, schema deployments, and platform automation workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex database, application, cloud, infrastructure, and performance-related issues.
• Develop operational dashboards, reports, and metrics utilizing Power BI, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Security Operations teams to implement database security controls, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, standards, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Participate in technology transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives across the enterprise.
• Provide escalation support for Service Desk, Infrastructure, Production Support, and Application teams.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database platforms.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and/or MySQL database, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL technologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing highly available database environments and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proven experience developing automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, C#, REST APIs, Git or similar programming languages.
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Infrastructure-as-Code practices preferred.
• Experience supporting cloud database solutions within Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of database security, encryption, authentication, and compliance requirements.
• Experience troubleshooting performance issues across large-scale database environments.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and operational reporting platforms.

General Requirements:

Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Oracle Certified Professional, PostgreSQL certification, ITIL Foundation, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or Azure DevOp