Database Engineer - aresmgmt

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

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.