Senior Database Engineer

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Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you’ve learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you’ve gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

The Senior Database Engineer at Zelis is a hands‑on technical role responsible for the engineering, administration, performance, modernization, and operational reliability of enterprise database platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and on‑premises environments. This role supports business‑critical databases with a focus on performance, availability, monitoring, incident response, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, maintenance, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management. A key priority is modernizing the Zelis database estate, including migrating and re‑platforming applications from Microsoft SQL Server to strategic platforms such as PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

The Senior Database Engineer will work directly with application and engineering teams to assess schemas, queries, stored procedures, dependencies, and data access patterns and execute the technical work required to migrate, optimize, and operate these workloads. This position requires deep hands‑on database engineering and DBA expertise, strong production troubleshooting skills, and experience with cloud database technologies, automation, monitoring, and Infrastructure as Code.

As a Senior Database Engineer at Zelis, you will be responsible for the hands‑on engineering, administration, performance, modernization, and operational support of enterprise database platforms across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and on‑premises environments. This role is focused on the day‑to‑day engineering and operation of business‑critical databases, including database performance, availability, monitoring, incident response, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, maintenance, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.

A primary focus of this role over the next two to three years will be the hands‑on migration and re‑platforming of applications away from Microsoft SQL Server where appropriate, with an emphasis on PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. You will work directly with application and engineering teams to analyze existing databases, schemas, queries, stored procedures, and data access patterns and perform the technical work required to migrate and optimize workloads on strategic database platforms.

This position requires strong hands‑on DBA and database engineering skills and the ability to troubleshoot and resolve database issues in production environments. You will spend the majority of your time working directly with database platforms, SQL, automation, monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, migrations, performance tuning, and operational tooling.

• Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises environments, including Microsoft SQL…