Remote Cloud Database Reliability Engineer

Cardinal Health, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401k plan

Paid time off

HSA

FSAs

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Wellness programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, owning reliability, uptime, and deployments for cloud databases. You will work with software and IT teams to drive automation, observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices across Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments.

The role requires strong database administration, cloud platform experience, and collaboration with security and application teams to meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required or preferred.
• 5+ years managing production Oracle databases in regulated healthcare environments.
• Experience with cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, GCP).
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with observability and telemetry-driven operations.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle databases in cloud environments (primary).
• Build monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting for database health.
• Maintain standards, runbooks, and documentation.
• Support deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize production and non-production performance.
• Perform root-cause analyses of performance incidents.
• Automate data refresh and data masking for non-production environments.
• Collaborate on security, compliance, and audits.
• Partner on data governance, patching, and access controls.
• Help modernize deployment automation and data movement architectures.
• Design and test backup, restore, replication, and DR strategies.

Skills

Oracle DBA

Cloud DB platforms

CI/CD

SRE principles

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Cardinal Health seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, owning reliability, uptime, and deployments for cloud databases. You will work with software and IT teams to drive automation, observability, resilience, and continuous delivery practices across Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments.

The role requires strong database administration, cloud platform experience, and collaboration with security and application teams to meet regulatory requirements.