Senior AWS Database Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to ensure the operational reliability of database platforms across AWS environments. This hands-on role blends software engineering practices with database operations to keep data platforms reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, drive automation, and collaborate with platform engineering, security, and application teams to meet requirements and maintain secure, consistent

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database administration and production ownership.
• Hands-on experience operating AWS database services at scale.
• DoD 8570/8140 compliant certification.
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Operate production databases on AWS (RDS, Aurora) and self-managed DBs on VMs.
• Administer DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and ensure reliability.
• Lead production incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Automate database operations using an everything-as-code approach.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and applications teams.

Skills

AWS

SQL

Observability

SRE practices

Incident management

Automation

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree with 6 years experience

High School Diploma or equivalent with 12 years experience

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

ElastiCache

RDS

Aurora

Terraform

Ansible

Liquibase

Flyway

Dynatrace

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Windows Server

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Database Administrator (DBA) to ensure the operational reliability of database platforms across AWS environments. This hands-on role blends software engineering practices with database operations to keep data platforms reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, drive automation, and collaborate with platform engineering, security, and application teams to meet requirements and maintain secure, consistent