Database Engineer

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

We are seeking a highly motivated Database Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting enterprise database platforms. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for modernizing and transforming the firm's data platform and database services.

Reports to:

Vice President, Infrastructure Engineering
Supervises:
None

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native database services.
• Design and maintain highly available database architectures including clustering, replication, failover, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions for database provisioning, configuration management, schema deployments, patching, backup validation, and health monitoring.
• Drive database platform modernization initiatives through scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and Dev Ops practices.
• Design and develop APIs, utilities, and self-service capabilities to automate database operations and improve service delivery.
• Implement and support cloud database services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, index management, and capacity planning activities.
• Monitor database health, capacity, availability, and security using enterprise monitoring and reporting platforms.
• Support database migration initiatives including on-premises to cloud migrations, platform upgrades, and version modernization projects.
• Partner with software development teams to establish database standards, deployment pipelines, and data architecture best practices.
• Build and maintain CI/CD integration for database changes, schema deployments, and platform automation workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex database, application, cloud, infrastructure, and performance-related issues.
• Develop operational dashboards, reports, and metrics utilizing Power BI, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Security Operations teams to implement database security controls, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, standards, and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Participate in technology transformation, platform engineering, and automation initiatives across the enterprise.
• Provide escalation support for Service Desk, Infrastructure, Production Support, and Application teams.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience managing and supporting enterprise database platforms.
• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and/or MySQL database, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for PostgreSQL technologies.
• Demonstrated experience designing highly available database environments and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proven experience developing automation solutions using Python, Power Shell, C#, REST…