Database Engineering & Operations Manager

Database Engineering & Operations Manager

Job Category: Cloud Engineering

Requisition Number: DATAB
001938

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• Posted :
  December 17, 2025
• Full-Time

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NC - Charlotte
1415 Vantage Park Dr
3rd Floor
Charlotte, NC 28203, USA

Allspring Global Investments™ is a leading independent asset management firm that offers a broad range of investment products and solutions designed to help meet clients' goals. At Allspring, our vision is to inspire a new era of investing that pursues both financial returns and positive outcomes. With decades of trusted experience propelling us forward, we strive to build portfolios aimed at generating successful outcomes for our clients.

We do this through the independence of thought that powers our investment strategies and by bringing a renewed approach to look around the corner to unlock what's possible. Allspring is a company committed to thoughtful investing, purposeful planning, and the desire to deliver outcomes that expand above and beyond financial gains. For more information, please visit About Us - Allspring Global Investments .

At Allspring, unique views inspire us. We leverage the diversity of people, ideas, and skills to help our clients pursue their financial goals. We strive to attract and retain a diverse talent pool that enables us to better serve our global client base. Intentionally fostering a diverse and inclusive culture allows us to empower innovation, productivity, and engagement. It’s also essential for elevating the experience of our clients as well as the communities in which we operate.

Thank you for considering Allspring as you explore the next step in your career journey.

POSITION

Allspring Engineering and Technology is a cloud first organization. We are seeking an onsite database engineering and operations manager to provide strategic and tactical leadership for our cloud-based (AWS, Azure & OCI) database service offering. Our database offerings include SQL
* Server and Oracle delivered both as RDS and server-based installs. This is a hands‑on leadership role managing a team of two Database Administrators and enabling Service Desk and NOC analysts to perform repeatable database operations tasks, perform basic database incident resolution and fulfill basic database service requests.

We currently operate in a hybrid working model, whereby you will be required to work in‑office 4 days a week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Fiscal

• Build an internal operating plan for the year, including all tooling and human resource requirements, force ranked, at all times.
• Track and maintain quantities and costs of tools, instances, licenses, etc. appropriate for the Allspring database estate.
• Meet your budget expectations.

Domain

• Create and maintain architectural diagram(s) of the database infrastructure.
• Define and maintain database service standards.
• Define and maintain database service catalogue.
• Create, document, and maintain database strategic vision and tactical plans to achieve them.

Operational

• Create and maintain monitoring and alerts across the database estate.
• Dashboard(s) demonstrating database health and drill down to diagnose flagged issues.
• Define and implement warning and alert thresholds as needed across your estate.
• Configure and maintain Ops Genie to create cases and send alerts based on thresholds.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to reduce costs, improve reliability, improve security, reduce risk, automate, etc. across the database infrastructure. Develop and execute plans to achieve approved recommendations.
• Resolve database incidents and fulfill service requests according to SLAs.
• Create and maintain operational procedures to run the database infrastructure. Ensure they are followed.
• Escalate operational, budgetary and initiative delivery issues in a timely manner.

Reporting

• Develop and maintain service delivery metrics (e.g. production database uptime, volume of databases across the estate, number of cases resolved, etc.).
• Report status of initiatives to management and through Weekly Business Reviews.

People Management

• Ensure primary and secondary on call schedules are maintained.
• Ensure you have the right people in the right seats.
  • Create an…