Senior Cockroach Database Engineer

Bank of America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer in Plano, TX to lead the design, build, and automation of the CockroachDB DBaaS platform on internal infrastructure. You will drive secure, scalable, highly available deployments with standardized practices and monitoring.

The role requires deep expertise in CockroachDB on Linux, Ansible, and end-to-end distributed DB architectures across regions, with strong emphasis on HA, automation, and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on CockroachDB on Linux.
• Expertise with Ansible automation.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed database platforms.
• End-to-end distributed DB architectures (HA, multi-region, active-active).
• Automation solutions for provisioning, deployment, scaling, upgrades.
• Security controls: TLS, certificate lifecycle, KMaaS integration.
• CI/CD integration with Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and deployment of CockroachDB DBaaS on Bank's internal infra.
• Build automation and self-service provisioning.
• Design high-availability, multi-region DB architectures.
• Establish engineering standards and governance for deployments.
• Drive platform reliability, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Lifecycle management for clusters: provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling.

Skills

CockroachDB

Ansible

Distributed databases

CI/CD integration

Security controls

Platform reliability

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Bitbucket

GitHub

Job description

Bank of America Overview

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.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices is a plus
• Experience with deploying CockroachDB on AWS public cloud is a plus

Skills

• Adaptability
• Business Acumen
• Production Support
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Automation
• Influence
• Innovative Thinking
• Solution Delivery
• Process
• Technical Strategy Development
• MS SQL Server
• Terraform
• Ansible

Shift & Working Hours

• Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
• Hours Per Week: 40

Company Culture & Values

• Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.
• Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
• We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone.
• We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well‑being.
• Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees.
• We use a multi‑faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.
• Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference.
• Partnering Locally: Learn about some of the ways Bank of America is making a difference in the communities we serve.
• Global Impact: Learn about the six areas that guide Bank of America’s efforts to help make financial lives better for customers, clients, communities and our teammates.
• Opportunity and Inclusion: Each employee brings unique skills, background and opinions. We see opportunity and inclusion as our platform for innovation and a key component in our success.
• Our Values: Learn about our four values that represent what we believe.

Pay Transparency

Pay Transparency: https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/pay-transparency