Senior AWS Database Architect - Cloud-Native & Secure

Athios; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Athios in the United States is seeking an experienced AWS Database Architect to design, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-native database solutions on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security for enterprise data platforms.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB, strong SQL tuning, backup and disaster recovery, and security best practices in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• 3+ years of database engineering/administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon RDS and/or Aurora.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).
• Strong SQL skills, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Basic AWS networking concepts (VPC, subnets, security groups).
• Encryption at rest and in transit experience.
• Scripting (Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and highly available AWS database architectures.
• Deploy and manage AWS database services (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Perform database performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Manage migrations to AWS using DMS and SCT.
• Configure monitoring, alerts, and observability (CloudWatch, Insights).
• Automate provisioning and configuration using IaC (Terraform, CDK).
• Enforce database security best practices (KMS, IAM, network isolation).
• Support data replication, ETL, and data warehouse solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and document procedures.

Skills

AWS database services

SQL performance tuning

Terraform

Python scripting

Security clearance

Tools

Amazon RDS

Aurora

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

AWS CDK

Job description

Athios in the United States is seeking an experienced AWS Database Architect to design, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-native database solutions on AWS, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security for enterprise data platforms.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DynamoDB, strong SQL tuning, backup and disaster recovery, and security best practices in cloud environments.