Remote Cloud Database Engineer - Oracle & Postgres Expert

Cardinal Health; Little Rock (AR); 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, a global leader in healthcare logistics, seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions. You will own reliability, uptime, performance, security, automation, and DR for cloud databases, collaborating with software and IT teams to drive observability and CD practices.

The role involves administering Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments, designing backup/restore, data masking, and data movement architectures, and partnering with security for

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in managed cloud environments.
• Build and manage 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 environments.
• Design and implement data masking for non-production environments.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams for regulatory audits.
• Partner with security to enhance data governance and access controls.
• Collaborate on deployment automation and data movement architectures.
• Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.

Skills

Oracle database administration

Cloud databases (AWS RDS / GCP)

CI/CD platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Observability/telemetry

Site reliability engineering (SLIs/SLO

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting/communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cardinal Health, a global leader in healthcare logistics, seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions. You will own reliability, uptime, performance, security, automation, and DR for cloud databases, collaborating with software and IT teams to drive observability and CD practices.

The role involves administering Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments, designing backup/restore, data masking, and data movement architectures, and partnering with security for