Senior Database Engineer

Madison-Davis, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to advance a cloud-first modernization of a critical SQL Server environment. The role is hands-on, focusing on performance, automation, and cross-team collaboration across app and infra teams.

The successful candidate will drive migrations to AWS, work with RDS/Aurora and EC2-based databases, and help shape the future PostgreSQL strategy while building robust monitoring and resiliency tooling. EST hours and rotational support are expected.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance tuning skills required.
• Production experience supporting databases in AWS environments.
• Experience with AWS database services such as RDS, Aurora, or EC2-hosted DBs.
• Proven involvement in migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming efforts.
• Strong incident-resolution capabilities and production-support mindset.
• Automation of database engineering or operational processes.
• Ability to collaborate across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and ops teams.
• Comfort working in a small engineering team with broad responsibilities.
• Willingness to work in EST hours and participate in rotational support.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support highly available SQL Server environments and workloads.
• Troubleshoot complex performance, locking, blocking, and connectivity issues.
• Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, indexes, and data access patterns.
• Support migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed services.
• Assist in transitioning toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native databases.
• Build and improve monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and tooling.
• Support backup/recovery, DR, replication, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and incidents.

Skills

SQL Server troubleshooting

AWS production DB

AWS DB services (RDS/Aurora)

Migrations & upgrades

Incident resolution

DB automation

Cross-team collaboration

EST hours rotation

Query optimization

Job description

A healthcare technology organization is hiring Senior Database Engineers to support and modernize a business-critical database environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep Microsoft SQL Server experience who also understands cloud database environments. The organization is beginning a longer-term modernization initiative that will move database workloads into AWS and increasingly leverage managed and PostgreSQL-based database technologies.

The successful candidate will combine strong production DBA fundamentals with cloud engineering, automation, observability, performance optimization, and migration experience.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support highly available, business-critical SQL Server database environments.
• Troubleshoot complex database performance, locking, blocking, resource, connectivity, and availability problems.
• Analyze execution plans and optimize queries, stored procedures, indexes, schemas, statistics, and application data-access patterns.
• Support database migrations and modernization initiatives involving AWS and managed database services.
• Help evaluate and execute longer-term transitions toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database platforms.
• Build and improve database monitoring, telemetry, alerting, automation, and operational tooling.
• Support backup/recovery, disaster recovery, replication, resiliency, patching, upgrades, and database lifecycle management.
• Partner directly with application and infrastructure engineers during projects and production incidents.

Role Requirements

• Advanced SQL Server troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills.
• Production experience supporting databases in AWS.
• Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, EC2-based database environments, or related AWS database services.
• Experience participating in database migrations, upgrades, or re-platforming initiatives.
• Strong production-support and incident-resolution capabilities.
• Experience automating database engineering or operational processes.
• Ability to work broadly across database, cloud, application, monitoring, and operational concerns.
• Comfortable working in a small engineering team where responsibilities are not heavily siloed.
• Ability to work EST hours and participate in rotational production support.

Nice to Have

• PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.
• Infrastructure as Code.
• IDERA or comparable database monitoring platforms.