Remote Cloud DB Engineer — Oracle, Postgres, MySQL | SRE

Cardinal Health; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

PTO

HSA

401k

MyFlexPay

FSAs

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions. You will own production and non-production reliability, performance, security, automation, and DR strategies for cloud databases.

You’ll collaborate with software and IT teams to drive automation, observability, and continuous delivery, ensuring data integrity and compliant operations across environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years managing production Oracle databases in healthcare environments.
• Experience with Oracle, cloud DB platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Knowledge of automation, scripting, and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with observability and telemetry-driven operations.
• Understanding of healthcare compliance standards (HIPAA, FedRAMP, HITRUST).
• Experience in Kubernetes environments and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in cloud environments.
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting to track DB health.
• Maintain runbooks, documentation, and operational standards.
• Support deployments and database releases.
• Analyze performance and optimize across prod/non-prod.
• Perform root cause analysis of incidents.
• Automate backups, refreshes, and data masking for non-prod.
• Collaborate on data governance and security controls.
• Partner with dev teams to modernize deployment automation.

Skills

Database administration

Cloud databases

Observability

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Security/compliance

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AWS RDS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions. You will own production and non-production reliability, performance, security, automation, and DR strategies for cloud databases.

You’ll collaborate with software and IT teams to drive automation, observability, and continuous delivery, ensuring data integrity and compliant operations across environments.