DevOps Engineer – Data Platforms; on-site

Overview

Direct Hire Opportunity

No Sponsorship

Onsite

We're looking for a Dev Ops Engineer focused on Data Platforms to help build and run highly scalable, automated data infrastructure. This role blends Dev Ops, cloud, and application engineering, with ownership over Postgre

SQL environments in AWS. The ideal candidate is someone who thinks in terms of platforms—creating systems that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining strong performance, reliability, and data integrity. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment where you ll have real influence on how data systems are designed and operated.

• 5+ years of experience managing and supporting databases in production environments
• Experience with PostGreSQL is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL or similar managed database services
• Solid understanding of database performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization
• Experience executing schema updates and data changes in live environments with minimal disruption
• Background working in Dev Ops or platform-focused teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code concepts
• Strong troubleshooting skills in production environments
• Ability to communicate effectively across engineering and technical teams

• Experience in high-growth or high-traffic environments
• Exposure to data security, auditing, and compliance practices
• Familiarity with database migration tools (Flyway, Liquibase, or similar)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools
• Interest in mentoring or guiding engineers on best practices for data usage
• Platform-oriented mindset with a focus on scalability and enablement

• Support and maintain Postgre
  
  SQL and Aurora Postgre
  
  SQL environments across multiple environments
• Contribute to building scalable, repeatable processes for database changes and deployments
• Partner with engineering teams on data modeling, indexing, and schema design
• Implement and support CI/CD workflows for database changes, including validation and rollback strategies
• Monitor and improve database performance through tuning and optimization
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and capacity planning processes
• Participate in incident response and contribute to long-term system improvements
• Assist in diagnosing and resolving application-level data and performance issues
• Help design and maintain backup, recovery, and failover processes in AWS
• Support best practices for data security, access control, and compliance
• Monitoring & Observability:
  Cloud Watch, database performance tools, custom dashboards
• Languages:
  
  SQL (strong), familiarity with modern application languages
• Cloud: AWS (RDS, IAM, monitoring, backups)
• CM:
  Flyway, Liquibase, or similar tools
• Dev Ops: CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, infrastructure-as-code collaboration