Remote Cloud Database Engineer – Health Data Reliability

Cardinal Health; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, a mission-critical healthcare SaaS platform. The role focuses on reliability, performance, security, automation, and disaster recovery for cloud databases, collaborating with software and IT teams to improve observability and continuous delivery.

Remote US-based position with responsibilities spanning production and non-production environments, database platforms, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5+ years of experience managing production Oracle databases in a regulated healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience with Oracle database administration and cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS or GCP preferred.
• Knowledge of database automation, scripting, and deployment processes preferred.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks and telemetry-driven operations preferred.
• Knowledge of site reliability engineering principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and automated remediation) preferred.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure as Code preferred.
• Understanding of healthcare compliance standards such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, or HITRUST preferred.
• Familiarity with CDC technologies preferred.
• Experience supporting databases and applications in Kubernetes-based environments preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in managed cloud environments.
• Build and manage monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems to track database health.
• Establish and maintain operational standards, documentation, and runbooks.
• Support application deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize database performance across environments.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents.
• Design, execute, and automate database refresh processes between production and non-production environments.
• Design and implement repeatable data masking processes for non-production environments.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and application teams to support regulatory audits.
• Partner with security teams to enhance data governance, patching, secret management, and access controls.
• Partner with software development teams to modernize deployment automation and data movement architectures.
• Design and test backup, restore, replication, and failure strategies to meet recovery objectives.

Skills

Oracle DB Admin

Cloud DBs (AWS RDS / GCP)

Scripting/Automation

Observability/Telemetry

CI/CD & IaC

Kubernetes

Healthcare Compliance (HIPAA)

Troubleshooting/Documentation

Data Governance & Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, a mission-critical healthcare SaaS platform. The role focuses on reliability, performance, security, automation, and disaster recovery for cloud databases, collaborating with software and IT teams to improve observability and continuous delivery.

Remote US-based position with responsibilities spanning production and non-production environments, database platforms, and regulatory compliance.