Senior Database Engineer - Cloud, PostgreSQL & Automation

Zelis Healthcare, LLC; Morris Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

holidays

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Health benefits

Job summary

Zelis Healthcare, LLC is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises. You will modernize the database estate, migrate applications from SQL Server to PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL, and ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with engineers to analyze schemas, queries, and data access patterns, performing hands‑on migrations and ongoing optimization in a fast‑paced

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with SQL Server in production environments.
• Proven ability to optimize queries, indexes, and execution plans.
• Experience migrating SQL Server workloads to PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Automation of database tasks using scripting and IaC.
• Familiarity with cloud DB services: AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support enterprise databases across AWS, Azure, and on‑prem.
• Perform performance tuning, schema/index optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Lead migrations and re‑platforming to PostgreSQL or Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Implement monitoring, backup, DR, and high-availability solutions.
• Collaborate with application engineers to optimize data access patterns.
• Create runbooks and documentation for operational procedures.

Skills

SQL Server performance tuning

PostgreSQL

AWS & Azure

Database migrations

Automation & IaC

Monitoring & observability

On-prem to cloud migrations

Git + CI/CD

SQL query optimization

ETL/data access patterns

Tools

IDERA

AWS

Azure

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

VS Code

Terraform

Job description

Zelis Healthcare, LLC is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises. You will modernize the database estate, migrate applications from SQL Server to PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL, and ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.

You will collaborate with engineers to analyze schemas, queries, and data access patterns, performing hands‑on migrations and ongoing optimization in a fast‑paced