Senior Database Engineer

Come join one of the largest news companies in the US!
Design, deploy, and maintain AWS-managed and on-prem/cloud-hosted databases
including:
o Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, and Oracle engines)
o Amazon DynamoDB
o Amazon ElastiCache (Redis and Memcached)
o Amazon DocumentDB and MongoDB
o Amazon OpenSearch Service (formerly Elasticsearch Service)
o Standalone Oracle Database environments
• Manage RDS clusters, snapshots, and instances, ensuring data integrity,
availability, and recovery readiness.
• Architect, implement, and maintain database monitoring, automation, and
scaling strategies using AWS-native and third-party tools.
• Partner with engineering, DevOps, and analytics teams to deliver secure, high performing, and cost-efficient database solutions.
• Lead database migrations, upgrades, and disaster recovery planning with
minimal downtime.
• Implement and optimize backup, replication, and sharding strategies for multi region and high-throughput workloads.
• Continuously assess emerging technologies and propose data modernization and
optimization strategies.

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Required Skills & Experience
• 5-10+ years of experience managing production database systems in AWS and
hybrid environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS services:
o aws_rds_db_snapshot, aws_dynamodb, aws_rds_instance,
aws_elasticache, aws_rds_cluster, aws_docdb_cluster,
aws_elasticsearch_domain
• Strong operational and tuning experience with Oracle Database and MongoDB.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data modeling, performance tuning,
and query optimization.
• Experience implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery
configurations.
• Skilled in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for provisioning and
automation.
• Familiarity with security best practices - encryption, IAM roles, VPC networking,
and data access controls.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with a collaborative mindset.


Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• AWS Certified Database - Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience with MongoDB and Oracle DB


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.