Multi-Cloud Database Engineer (Oracle & PostgreSQL)

United States Cold Storage, Inc.; Camden (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

United States Cold Storage, Inc. is seeking a Database Engineer to own the health, performance, and evolution of our database platforms behind warehouse systems.

You will work with Infrastructure, DevOps and Software Engineering to design, implement, and scale DBs across Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB Atlas in Azure, reducing operational toil through CI/CD. You’ll contribute to HA/DR planning, monitoring, and cost optimization while supporting mission‑critical workloads with on‑call incident

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a DBA or Database Engineer, with strong proficiency in Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Fluency in PL/SQL, including designing and optimizing performant queries.
• Experience with NoSQL/JSON databases a plus.
• Proven ability to diagnose database‑related application issues including performance bottlenecks, locking and replication delays.
• Experience managing database infrastructure in the cloud (Azure preferred).
• Experience deploying database systems using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar).
• Track record building monitoring and alerting for critical database operations (Dynatrace or Azure Monitor a plus).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, patch, and maintain our existing Oracle database infrastructure on OCI, ensuring uptime and reliability for production workloads.
• Tune and optimize Oracle performance through query plan analysis, indexing strategies, and schema‑level improvements to meet performance standards.
• Architect, deploy, and manage our modern cloud‑based database systems in Azure, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB in support of our modernization initiative.
• Own HA/DR posture across intra‑region and cross‑region failure scenarios, including defining and validating RPO/RTO targets with the business.
• Partner with DevOps, Development, and Infrastructure teams to ensure database architecture supports application performance targets while managing cloud spend.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Jenkins to automate schema migrations, environment provisioning, and routine operational tasks.
• Implement and own database observability – query performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, and cost optimization across cloud platforms.
• Provide real‑time production support for mission‑critical database workloads, including on‑call participation and incident response.

Skills

Oracle

PostgreSQL

PL/SQL

NoSQL/JSON

Cloud Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

OCI

MongoDB Atlas

Terraform

Ansible

Dynatrace

Azure Monitor

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

United States Cold Storage, Inc. is seeking a Database Engineer to own the health, performance, and evolution of our database platforms behind warehouse systems.

You will work with Infrastructure, DevOps and Software Engineering to design, implement, and scale DBs across Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB Atlas in Azure, reducing operational toil through CI/CD. You’ll contribute to HA/DR planning, monitoring, and cost optimization while supporting mission‑critical workloads with on‑call incident