The organization is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer to help design, build, and support a modern database platform. This role emphasizes automation, infrastructure-as-code, and declarative database management practices. The successful candidate will create scalable solutions that reduce manual operational effort while ensuring consistency, security, and reliability across multiple database technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support database platforms, including automated provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Build and maintain high-availability database solutions and automated deployment frameworks.
- Drive adoption of declarative, state-based database deployment practices, ensuring all changes are version-controlled, auditable, repeatable, and automated.
- Manage database schema as code with strict governance around change management and drift prevention.
- Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools to ensure repeatable and standardized deployments.
- Develop CI/CD and GitOps workflows that integrate database deployments into broader engineering processes.
- Build observability and monitoring solutions utilizing modern monitoring and telemetry frameworks.
- Create migration and modernization tooling to assist with platform transformations.
- Develop self-service capabilities and implement robust security controls across database environments.
Required Experience
- Strong hands-on expertise administering and optimizing enterprise database platforms, including performance tuning, indexing, high availability, replication, and security.
- Experience supporting modern cloud data platforms, including data modeling, security administration, ingestion, and performance optimization.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools for provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Hands-on experience implementing declarative, state-based database deployment methodologies.
- Strong understanding of schema-as-code principles, versioned migrations, automated releases, and environment promotion strategies.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as PowerShell and/or Python.
- Experience integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps workflows.
Preferred Experience
- Exposure to additional database technologies, including relational, analytical, and distributed data platforms.
- Experience with caching technologies and modern data infrastructure components.
- Familiarity with container orchestration and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience building lakehouse architectures and data federation capabilities.
- Knowledge of workflow orchestration and data transformation tools.
- Experience with observability platforms, metrics collection, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Familiarity with reporting and business intelligence tools.
Ideal Candidate
- Passionate about automation and treating infrastructure and database changes as code.
- Strong platform engineering mindset with experience building scalable internal services.
- Comfortable operating across infrastructure, database, and application layers.
- Interested in modernizing traditional database administration practices through engineering-led solutions.
- Adaptable, curious, and eager to learn new technologies in a rapidly evolving environment.

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