Senior CockroachDB Platform Engineer – DBaaS & Automation

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

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer to lead the design and engineering of a CockroachDB DBaaS platform on the bank's internal infrastructure. You will build a secure, scalable, highly available, automated database service, develop templates and playbooks, and drive reliability, performance tuning, and multi-region deployments across the enterprise.

The role demands deep distributed-systems expertise, strong automation skills with Ansible/Terraform, and the ability to shape

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with CockroachDB on Linux.
• Strong expertise with Ansible automation frameworks.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed database platforms in enterprise environments.
• End-to-end distributed database architectures focusing on HA, fault tolerance, multi-region deployments, and active-active configurations.
• Automation development for VM-based provisioning, cluster deployment, lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, scaling.
• Experience integrating database automation with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, or similar.
• Ability to define engineering standards, reference architectures, and governance for enterprise DB platforms.

Responsibilities

• Leads architecture, design, and implementation of the CockroachDB DBaaS platform within the bank's internal infrastructure.
• Builds automation and self-service capabilities for rapid provisioning of CockroachDB clusters.
• Designs high availability, fault tolerance, and multi-region database architectures.
• Establishes engineering standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures for secure, scalable deployments.
• Drives platform reliability with monitoring, observability, performance tuning, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.

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

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Bitbucket

GitHub

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Senior CockroachDB Engineer to lead the design and engineering of a CockroachDB DBaaS platform on the bank's internal infrastructure. You will build a secure, scalable, highly available, automated database service, develop templates and playbooks, and drive reliability, performance tuning, and multi-region deployments across the enterprise.

The role demands deep distributed-systems expertise, strong automation skills with Ansible/Terraform, and the ability to shape