Senior Cockroach Database Engineer

National Black MBA Association

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer to lead the design and deployment of a scalable CockroachDB DBaaS platform on the Bank's internal infrastructure. You will set engineering standards and drive automation for rapid, secure provisioning.

You will build highly available, active-active architectures with global reach, while mentoring teams and aligning with enterprise policies and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

Proven experience building and operating large-scale distributed DB platforms.
Strong design and automation skills for complex data architectures.
Experience with CockroachDB, Linux, and automation tooling.
Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical blueprints.
Security, reliability, and compliance focused database engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture, design, and implementation of the CockroachDB DBaaS platform.
Build automation and self-service provisioning for CockroachDB clusters.
Design high-availability, multi-region database architectures.
Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and operating procedures.
Drive platform reliability with monitoring, tuning, backups, and DR solutions.
Define lifecycle processes for provisioning, upgrades, and scaling.
Serve as SME for CockroachDB initiatives and collaborate with CI/CD teams.
Evaluate new technologies to improve architecture and operations.

Skills

Adaptability

Production Support

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Automation

Influence

Innovative Thinking

Solution Delivery Process

Technical Strategy Development

MS SQL Server

Terraform

Ansible

Tools

CockroachDB

Linux

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Job Description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description

This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior CockroachDB Engineer to lead the design, engineering, build automation Bank's CockroachDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform. This individual will be responsible for building a secure, scalable, highly available, and automated database platform on the Bank's internal infrastructure while establishing engineering standards and best practices for enterprise-wide adoption.

Responsibilities

Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams
Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains
Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of the CockroachDB DBaaS platform deployed within the Bank's internal infrastructure.
Build automation and self-service capabilities that enable rapid, standardized provisioning of CockroachDB clusters.
Design and implement high availability (active-active), fault-tolerant, and multi-region database architectures.
Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, operational procedures, and best practices for secure, scalable, and compliant CockroachDB deployments.
Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through monitoring, observability, performance tuning, capacity planning, failover automation, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
Define and implement lifecycle management processes for cluster provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for CockroachDB related initiatives .
Evaluate emerging technologies and continuously improve the platform architecture, automation, and operational model.

Required Qualifications

Extensive hands-on experience with CockroachDB on Linux platforms.
Strong expertise with Ansible automation frameworks.
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed database platforms in enterprise environments.
Be able to design and implement end-to-end distributed database architectures using CockroachDB with a focus on:
High Availability (HA)
Fault Tolerance
Multi-Region Deployments
Active-Active Configurations
Develop automation solutions for:
VM-based provisioning
Cluster deployment and configuration
Lifecycle management
Version upgrades and patching
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Implement automated monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities for CockroachDB environments.
Strong expertise in Ansible playbooks, roles, and automation frameworks.
Implement enterprise-grade security controls, including:
TLS encryption
Certificate lifecycle management
Vault integration
Key Management as a Service (KMaaS) integration
Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, including:
Consensus protocols
Replication
Quorum
Failover and recovery mechanisms
Experience integrating database automation with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar platforms.
Ability to define engineering standards, operational best practices, reference architectures, and governance models for enterprise database platforms.