Senior Database Platform Engineer

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Texas Capital provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, fertility and family building aids, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans with a generous 401K match, paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).Headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, Plano and San Antonio, Texas Capital was recently named Best Regional Bank in 2024 by Bankrate and was named to
* The Dallas Morning News*’ Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex Top Workplaces 2023 and Go Banking Rate ’s 2023 list of Best Regional Banks. For more information about joining our team, please visit us at .
** Senior Database Administrator and Reliability Engineer
**** Responsibilities
* ** Administer and configure Cloud SQL Server, Postgre

SQL, and Snowflake databases in production environments.
* Participate in gathering business and technical requirements for database solutions across projects and platforms.
* Design and implement database architectures across AWS (RDS, Aurora) and Azure managed database services leveraging cloud-native capabilities.
* Administer user security roles, profiles, and access permissions including creating and managing role-based access controls across all database platforms.
* Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, implement remediation, and perform security hardening to maintain compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS standards.
* Provide architectural recommendations to application teams on database design, schema optimization, and technology selection for new and existing solutions.
* Provide business and IT support for database-related issues, collaborating with application teams across the organization for deployment, troubleshooting, and post-deployment validation.
* Design and optimize operational workflows including backup, recovery, replication, high-availability, performance tuning and disaster recovery plans with defined RTO/RPO targets.
* Perform new technology exploration to evaluate fit of emerging database platforms and cloud services for strategic and tactical program needs.
* Document and implement change control following best practices for system maintenance, configuration, development, testing, and migration.
* Perform operational tasks such as monitoring database performance and implementing solutions for continuous performance improvement.
* Develop and maintain Python scripts and automation tools to eliminate manual processes and streamline repetitive DBA tasks.
* Create Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform or Cloud Formation to automate provisioning, monitoring, alerting, and failover procedures.
* Collaborate with engineering and application teams to support development, deployments, and platform-level initiatives.
* Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of database solutions across the enterprise.
* Follow software engineering best practices including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for all database-related automation.
** Qualifications
* ** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or Technology, or related field.
* Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in database administration…