Senior Database & Automation Architect

US Bank; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Paid vacation

Holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank seeks a senior database and platform engineer to design, implement, and optimize multi-platform database environments. You will automate operations with Python, Ansible, and Terraform, and lead migrations, HA implementations, and AI-driven runbooks across Azure and AWS.

The role emphasizes scalable database management, observability with Datadog, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology environment.
• At least 7 years of experience with design, development and support of technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize IBM DB2 UDB and PostgreSQL environments across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Python, Ansible, Terraform, Shell scripting, and APIs.
• Automate server provisioning, deployments, patching, upgrades, backup validation, and compliance checks.
• Build self-service capabilities for provisioning and managing database environments with minimal manual intervention.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, modernization, and high-availability implementations.
• Implement AI-driven operational solutions for incident triage, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, and runbooks.
• Establish IaC standards, Git workflows, and cloud deployment practices across Azure and AWS.
• Drive improvements to reduce toil, improve reliability, observability, and self-healing automation.

Skills

DB2 Admin

PostgreSQL Admin

Python

Automation

Ansible

Terraform

Git

APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

Linux Admin

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

Observability (Datadog)

IaC

AI/GenAI Ops

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Git

APIs

Datadog

Job description

U.S. Bank seeks a senior database and platform engineer to design, implement, and optimize multi-platform database environments. You will automate operations with Python, Ansible, and Terraform, and lead migrations, HA implementations, and AI-driven runbooks across Azure and AWS.

The role emphasizes scalable database management, observability with Datadog, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve reliability and efficiency.