Remote DynamoDB Global Architect

EPAM Systems; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning access

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Employee discounts

Stock Purchase Program

Bonus program

Long-Term Incentive program

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks an experienced DynamoDB Engineer to lead a multi-region migration and establish robust disaster recovery for hyperscale NoSQL workloads. You will design migrations of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions, implement Global Tables, and build the active-active foundation for future scalability.

You will author production-grade Terraform configurations and AWS CDK (TypeScript) modules for DynamoDB resources across regions, ensure operational excellence with monitoring, runbooks, and

Qualifications

• Terraform: production-level authoring of DynamoDB resources and state management.
• AWS CDK + TypeScript as baseline IaC standard for the program.
• Deep DynamoDB expertise in advanced data modeling and access pattern optimization for hyper-scale workloads.
• Experience with Global Tables, cross-region replication, and multi-region consistency models.
• GSI/LSI design, capacity planning, backfill strategies, and projection optimization.
• PITR, backups, and cross-region recovery testing across regions.
• NoSQL DB administration: performance tuning, query optimization and hot-partition mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute multi-region DynamoDB migrations and DR setup across AWS regions.
• Model data structures for cross-region replication with sub-millisecond performance targets.
• Author Terraform and CDK modules for DynamoDB resources, GSIs/LSIs, and backups.
• Plan capacity and auto-scaling for tables and GSIs, balancing cost and SLAs.
• Implement PITR, on-demand backups, and cross-region backup strategies; test runbooks.
• Establish CloudWatch alarms and participate in DR GameDay exercises and drills.

Skills

Terraform

AWS CDK

DynamoDB

Global Tables

NoSQL modeling

GSI/LSI design

PITR & backups

Monitoring & runbooks

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK (TypeScript)

DynamoDB

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks an experienced DynamoDB Engineer to lead a multi-region migration and establish robust disaster recovery for hyperscale NoSQL workloads. You will design migrations of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions, implement Global Tables, and build the active-active foundation for future scalability.

You will author production-grade Terraform configurations and AWS CDK (TypeScript) modules for DynamoDB resources across regions, ensure operational excellence with monitoring, runbooks, and