Senior Database Engineering Leader - Cloud and Fleet

NCL Bahamas Ltd.; Ohio; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. seeks a Senior Manager, Database Engineering to lead a core team across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, in AWS and onboard fleets.

You will govern the database roadmap, mentor engineers, and partner with vendor and security teams to ensure resilience and compliant operations. You will own availability and recovery strategies, define change standards, and drive modernization through IaC and GitOps, while maintaining enterprise data security and audit

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive database administration or engineering experience.
• Experience leading technical delivery as a people manager.
• Governing a multi-engine database estate with standardized practices.
• Experience in 24/7 operations and incident response.
• Clear communication with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own availability, resilience, and recovery across all database platforms in cloud and shipboard environments.
• Lead database incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management.
• Own the technical roadmap and priorities for the database estate.
• Define quality standards, change management, and drift detection across environments.
• Lead, develop, and retain a team of database engineers and mentors.
• Own monitoring, observability toolchain, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Security, Risk & Compliance on controls and audits.

Skills

Leadership

Incident response

Vendor governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Security by design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle

MySQL

PostgreSQL

AWS RDS

Aurora

Terraform

OpenTofu

GitOps

Job description

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. seeks a Senior Manager, Database Engineering to lead a core team across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, in AWS and onboard fleets.

You will govern the database roadmap, mentor engineers, and partner with vendor and security teams to ensure resilience and compliant operations. You will own availability and recovery strategies, define change standards, and drive modernization through IaC and GitOps, while maintaining enterprise data security and audit