Senior AWS Cloud Database Leader - Migrations to RDS/Aurora

Oec; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO + holidays

Remote-first with stipend

Professional development & tuition

Home office equipment stipend

Employee discounts

Job summary

OEC is undergoing a multi-year cloud transformation and seeks a Senior DBA to lead migrations to AWS managed services, focusing on RDS for SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will architect secure, highly available environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and guide a growing DBA team.

You will collaborate across engineering, security, and operations to ensure scalable and observable database platforms, leveraging CloudWatch, Datadog, and AWS services.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of database administration experience.
• 3–5 years running AWS managed database services in production.
• Proven experience migrating and operating RDS for SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on Terraform experience provisioning AWS database infrastructure.
• Fluency in AWS security, networking, and observability tooling.
• Strong architectural judgment for cloud migrations and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own migrations to AWS managed services, with RDS for SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL as target platforms.
• Plan and execute migrations using DMS and SCT, sequencing and validating waves.
• Architect multi-AZ, highly available database environments using RDS Proxy, automated failover, and AWS Backup.
• Define and implement IaC standards with Terraform, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead cross-functional incident response and root cause analysis.
• Own performance, scalability, and observability using CloudWatch, RDS Performance Insights, and Datadog.
• Enforce security via Secrets Manager, IAM authentication, KMS, and VPC isolation.
• Mentor and grow the DBA team.

Skills

AWS RDS

SQL Server

Aurora PostgreSQL

DMS

SCT

Terraform

CloudWatch

Observability

Security

Networking

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

IAM

Job description

OEC is undergoing a multi-year cloud transformation and seeks a Senior DBA to lead migrations to AWS managed services, focusing on RDS for SQL Server and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will architect secure, highly available environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and guide a growing DBA team.

You will collaborate across engineering, security, and operations to ensure scalable and observable database platforms, leveraging CloudWatch, Datadog, and AWS services.