Senior Database Engineer — Redis & OpenSearch

First Citizens Bank; Jacksonville (FL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Database Engineer III to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database and data platform technologies. You will lead Redis and OpenSearch engineering, manage relational databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and IBM DB2, and expert Oracle GoldenGate replication architectures.

The role partners with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver highly available, secure database solutions, participates in on-call support,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field with 4+ years in database engineering/administration.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise database platforms.
• Proven ability to lead incident response and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provides advanced engineering and operational support for enterprise database platforms.
• Leads troubleshooting of complex production incidents and performance issues.
• Manages database infra modernization, migrations, and automation initiatives.
• Designs and supports Redis deployments including clustering and HA.
• Install, configure, monitor, and tune OpenSearch clusters and index lifecycles.
• Administers PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 in heterogeneous environments.
• Configures Oracle GoldenGate replication and CDC architectures.
• Develops automation scripts to improve provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance.

Skills

Redis (advanced)

Redis clustering

OpenSearch

PostgreSQL

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Oracle GoldenGate

Linux

Scripting/Automation

Cloud databases

High availability

Replication architectures

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 4+ years

HS Diploma + 8+ years

Tools

Redis

OpenSearch

Oracle GoldenGate

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

IBM DB2

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Database Engineer III to design, implement, and optimize enterprise database and data platform technologies. You will lead Redis and OpenSearch engineering, manage relational databases including PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and IBM DB2, and expert Oracle GoldenGate replication architectures.

The role partners with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver highly available, secure database solutions, participates in on-call support,