Remote Cloud Database Engineer (Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL)

Cardinal Health; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Wages before pay day with myFlexPay

FSAs

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

The Cloud Database Engineer at Cardinal Health’s WaveMark Solutions will support a large, mission-critical healthcare application, focusing on reliability, uptime, and automation for cloud databases. You will collaborate with software development and IT teams to drive observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices.

Responsibilities include managing Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in cloud environments, building monitoring, and supporting deployments and disaster recovery planning,

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 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.

Skills

Oracle database administration

CI/CD knowledge

Scripting

Observability & telemetry

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

Oracle Database

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

The Cloud Database Engineer at Cardinal Health’s WaveMark Solutions will support a large, mission-critical healthcare application, focusing on reliability, uptime, and automation for cloud databases. You will collaborate with software development and IT teams to drive observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices.

Responsibilities include managing Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in cloud environments, building monitoring, and supporting deployments and disaster recovery planning,