Remote Cloud DB Reliability Engineer (Healthcare)

Cardinal Health; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

401k savings plan

Health savings account (HSA)

Flexible spending accounts (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, a cloud-based clinical supply chain platform. You will own reliability, performance, security, automation, and disaster recovery for cloud databases, working with development and IT teams to improve observability and deployment practices.

The role is remote within the United States. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Oracle DB experience in regulated healthcare, plus cloud platform familiarity and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years managing production Oracle databases in healthcare environment preferred.
• Experience with Oracle DB administration and cloud platforms (AWS RDS, GCP) preferred.
• Knowledge of automation, scripting, and deployment processes preferred.
• Familiarity with observability frameworks and telemetry-driven operations preferred.
• Understanding of HIPAA, FedRAMP, or HITRUST preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based environments preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting and documentation skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in cloud environments.
• Build and manage monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems for DB health.
• Establish and maintain runbooks and operational standards.
• Support application deployments and database releases.
• Analyze and optimize database performance across environments.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents.
• Design, execute, and automate database refresh and masking processes.
• Collaborate on security, compliance, and regulatory audits.
• Improve data governance, patching, secret management, and access controls.
• Partner on deployment automation and modern data movement architectures.
• Design backup, restore, replication, and DR strategies.

Skills

Oracle databases

Cloud databases (AWS RDS / GCP)

Observability/telemetry

Site reliability engineering (SRE)

CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Security/compliance awareness

Troubleshooting/communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD platforms

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform etc.)

Cloud monitoring tools

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to support WaveMark Solutions, a cloud-based clinical supply chain platform. You will own reliability, performance, security, automation, and disaster recovery for cloud databases, working with development and IT teams to improve observability and deployment practices.

The role is remote within the United States. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Oracle DB experience in regulated healthcare, plus cloud platform familiarity and strong