Database Expert

TAP; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TAP is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to maintain performance, availability, security, and integrity of databases across cloud environments. You will design, provision, monitor, and optimize managed relational and NoSQL databases, and partner with platform and data teams to implement automation and resilience.

The role requires hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra, plus Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure as code.

Qualifications

• Experience administering managed database services in cloud environments (AWS or OCI).
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.
• Experience with monitoring and performance tuning tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, configure, and operate managed SQL and NoSQL databases in the cloud.
• Monitor health, investigate slow queries, tune indexes and storage.
• Establish backup, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery practices.
• Protect data with encryption, access controls, retention policies, audits.
• Support schema migrations, versioning, CI/CD, and IaC collaboration.
• Communicate operational risks clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud database administration

Performance tuning

CI/CD collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Role overview

Maintain the performance, availability, security, and integrity of databases used by mission-critical systems. The work spans managed relational and NoSQL services across cloud environments, combining database operations and tuning with automation, resilience planning, and close support for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, configure, and operate managed SQL and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and related cloud services.
• Monitor database health and performance, investigate slow queries, and tune indexes, parameters, storage, and scaling.
• Establish backup, snapshot, replication, restore, and disaster recovery practices for resilient data services.
• Protect data with encryption, access controls, retention policies, and security or compliance audits.
• Support database changes through schema migration practices, versioning, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code in collaboration with platform and data teams.
• Communicate operational risks, **?**

Requirements

• Practical experience administering managed database services in cloud environments; experience with AWS or OCI is relevant to the stated scope.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Skills in monitoring, automation, and performance tuning, using tools such as Performance Insights, query statistics, metrics, or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Ability to work independently, take technical ownership, and collaborate with a service-oriented mindset.
• Clear written and spoken English; a related degree is preferred, with equivalent professional experience also valued.

Nice to have

• Arabic language proficiency, especially for client-facing or regional work.
• Experience applying managed database capabilities to security and compliance requirements such as PCI DSS, GDPR, or SOC 2.