Remote Cloud DB Engineer: Oracle & Automation

Cardinal Health; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

FSAs

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, ensuring production reliability, performance, security, and deployment automation for cloud databases.

You will work with software and IT teams to improve observability, implement backup and disaster recovery, and contribute to data governance and compliance initiatives across Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5+ years 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.

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 DBA

Cloud databases

SRE/observability

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, ensuring production reliability, performance, security, and deployment automation for cloud databases.

You will work with software and IT teams to improve observability, implement backup and disaster recovery, and contribute to data governance and compliance initiatives across Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL in managed cloud environments.