Senior Cloud Database Engineer (PostgreSQL/AWS)

Redapt inc; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Redapt Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Engineer for its Cloud Solutions team. You will design, optimize, and operate cloud-native relational databases, emphasizing PostgreSQL and related AWS services such as RDS/Aurora.

You will implement automation, migrations, and high-availability patterns across production environments. The role requires 5+ years in database engineering with hands-on AWS experience, strong SQL skills, and a passion for scalable data platforms.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, or data platform engineering with production relational DB systems.
• Experience designing, developing, tuning, and operating production relational database systems, including AWS workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, secure relational database solutions for cloud-native/enterprise apps.
• Model data structures, schemas, and partitioning strategies based on requirements.
• Develop and maintain SQL, stored procedures, views, triggers, and other DB components.
• Tune performance across SQL, indexing, schemas, and configurations for heavy workloads.
• Plan and execute migrations, upgrades, and platform modernization with validation and rollback.
• Implement backup/recovery, replication, HA, security, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Automate provisioning and deployment using IaC, scripting, CI/CD, and cloud-native tools.

Skills

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

SQL performance tuning

AWS RDS/Aurora

Database design

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK/CloudFormation

Python

Bash

Job description

Redapt Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Engineer for its Cloud Solutions team. You will design, optimize, and operate cloud-native relational databases, emphasizing PostgreSQL and related AWS services such as RDS/Aurora.

You will implement automation, migrations, and high-availability patterns across production environments. The role requires 5+ years in database engineering with hands-on AWS experience, strong SQL skills, and a passion for scalable data platforms.