Remote Cloud Database Engineer — Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL

Cardinal Health

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 96,000 - 138,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid time off

401k plan

Parental leave

HSA

Job summary

Cardinal Health WaveMark Solutions seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to own reliability, uptime, automation, and recovery strategies for a large healthcare cloud database system. You will collaborate with software and IT teams to implement automation, observability, and secure deployments.

You will administer Oracle and cloud databases, build monitoring and audit systems, and drive performance optimization across production and non-production environments while ensuring regulatory compliance and

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 of Oracle database administration and cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS or GCP preferred.
Knowledge of database automation, scripting, and deployment processes preferred.
Familiarity implementing 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 change data capture (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 intelligent monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems to proactively track database health.
Establish and maintain operational standards, documentation, and runbooks.
Support application deployments and database releases.
Analyze and optimize database performance across production and non-production 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 and enforce data governance, patching, secret management, and access controls.
Partner with software development teams to modernize deployment automation and collaborate on modern data movement architectures.
Design and test backup, restore, replication, and failure strategies to meet business recovery time and recovery point objectives.