AWS Database Engineer

Description :

AWS Database Engineer is responsible for operating, managing, and optimizing secure, scalable, and highly available database platforms hosted on Amazon Web Services. The role focuses on supporting existing enterprise and production database environments in a regulated setup, ensuring performance, availability, security, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage and operate AWS database services including RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases on EC2

- Support production and non-production databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle

- Perform database provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, and version management

- Ensure high availability, backup, restore, and disaster recovery configurations for databases

- Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and perform tuning and optimization

- Manage database security including encryption at rest and in transit, IAM roles, parameter groups, and access controls

- Support database connectivity from applications hosted on EKS, EC2, and other AWS services

- Troubleshoot database incidents, performance issues, and connectivity problems

- Implement and manage automated backups, snapshots, and retention policies

- Use Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation for database provisioning and configuration

- Work closely with application, network, and security teams during production changes and incidents

- Support audit, compliance, and Infosec requirements by providing database evidence and documentation

- Follow defined change management, backup, and operational procedures

Key Tools :

- AWS Services : Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, EC2, AWS Backup, CloudWatch, AWS KMS, IAM

- Databases : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle

- Automation : Terraform, AWS CloudFormation

Qualifications :

- 3 to 5+ years of experience in database administration or database engineering

- Hands-on experience managing databases in AWS cloud environments

- Strong understanding of database architecture, replication, backup, and recovery

- Experience with performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization

- Knowledge of database security best practices and compliance requirements

- AWS Certified Database Specialty preferred