Senior DB Engineer: Cloud Migrations & Performance

Zelis; Morristown (NJ); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan with employer match

Health, dental, vision benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave & disability insurance

Job summary

Zelis is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise databases across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises. You will focus on performance, availability, migrations, and modernization, working closely with application teams.

You'll drive migrations from SQL Server to PostgreSQL/Aurora, build automation with IaC, and contribute to incident response, backup, and DR plans in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Microsoft SQL Server experience in production environments with ability to diagnose and resolve complex database problems.
• Experience with AWS RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and/or Amazon EC2 for databases.
• Experience migrating Microsoft SQL Server workloads to PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Automate database engineering and operations using scripting and IaC; familiarity with Git/GitHub/CI/CD.
• Experience with database monitoring/telemetry using IDERA or AWS-native tools.
• Experience with Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises environments.
• Perform hands‑on database performance engineering and query tuning.
• Migrate databases and applications from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL/Aurora.
• Plan and execute backups, recovery, HA, and disaster recovery.
• Develop automation and IaC for provisioning, deployment, and maintenance.
• Collaborate with application teams to optimize data access patterns.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Provide 24x7 production support and on‑call rotations.

Skills

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

Migration & re-platforming

Automation & IaC

SQL performance tuning

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Git

GitHub

CI/CD

VS Code

IDERA

Job description

Zelis is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise databases across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises. You will focus on performance, availability, migrations, and modernization, working closely with application teams.

You'll drive migrations from SQL Server to PostgreSQL/Aurora, build automation with IaC, and contribute to incident response, backup, and DR plans in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.