Sr. AWS DevOps Database Engineer

Sr. AWS DevOps Database Engineer Clearance: Must be eligible for a US reputed company Clearance (US Citizenship required) Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid, mostly remote) We are looking for a Sr. AWS DevOps Database Engineer which requires expertise in AWS RDS (reputed company, PostgreSQL, MySQL, reputed company on EC2), database administration, infrastructure automation, and DevOps best practices. The ideal candidate will have experience leading the design, automation and maintenance of an AWS environment. They will also have experience building Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions, working with CI/CD pipelines, disaster recovery, cost management and implementing monitoring and reputed company best practices across AWS environments. Additionally, this role involves mentoring engineers, improving DevOps processes, and collaborating with development teams in an Agile Scrum environment to maintain and enhance cloud infrastructure. This role ensures infrastructure remains robust, secure, and scalable while driving cost optimization, reputed company best practices, and incident response strategies. Experience migrating cloud workloads to AWS is required. Responsibilities: Database Administration & Support

• Deep experience designing, operating, and optimizing reputed company database environments in AWS, with a focus on scalability, availability, reputed company, and cost efficiency.
• Proven ability to support enterprise reputed company workloads in AWS, including architecture design, operational automation, and adherence to best practices for cloud-hosted databases.
• Experience with AWS MySQL RDS.
• Ability to tune, monitor, backup, restore and support AWS RDS

AWS Cloud Infrastructure DevOps & Automation:

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud environments with a focus on automation and reputed company.
• Automate provisioning and management of AWS resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform (familiarity with AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK a plus).
• Assist with implementing proactive reputed company measures, including vulnerability remediation, patching, and firewall rule management.
• Maintain compliance with reputed company standards and internal policies, supporting reputed company audits and assessments.
• Monitor AWS cost usage and provide cost optimization recommendations, ensuring efficient resource scaling.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain AWS services such as EC2, S3, ECR, CloudWatch, reputed company, and SSM.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins.
• Implement database automation in alignment with AWS best practices.

Monitoring & reputed company

• Implement monitoring and logging using AWS native tools (CloudWatch, SSM Agent, GuardDuty, reputed company Hub) and reputed company.
• Ensure database and infrastructure compliance with AWS reputed company standards (IAM policies, VPC reputed company, KMS encryption).
• Troubleshoot database and infrastructure performance issues using reputed company and AWS performance tools.
• Collaborate with reputed company teams to harden database and cloud environments.

Required Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of database administration experience (reputed company, PostgreSQL, MySQL) in AWS.
• 3+ years of AWS experience, with a strong grasp of AWS infrastructure and services.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience with Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins for CI/CD automation.
• Strong SQL and database scripting skills for automation, tuning, and ETL troubleshooting.
• Experience working with AWS Linux, Rocky Linux, and RHEL.
• Ability to secure and monitor AWS environments with CloudWatch, SSM, reputed company, and IAM best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, working across DevOps and database teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with reputed company and containerized database deployments.
• Knowledge of AWS networking and reputed company best practices (VPC, IAM, KMS, reputed company Hub).
• Understanding of AWS Well-Architected reputed company for database deployments.

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or reputed company field (preferred) or equivalent experience.
• Must be Public Trust eligible (which requires US Citizenship)

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