Sr Cloud Database Platform Engineer; AWS

Database/Systems Engineer

Full Time, On-site San Antonio, TX

Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Sign-on Bonus:
Eligible

Referral Bonus: up to $1,000

Semper Valens Solutions is looking for a Database Engineer. Provides subject matter proficiency for work described in the task. Responsible for providing analytical skills to support process improvement, specialized studies, and definition of requirements.

Typical duties include analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architectures, and other related management and technical duties.

• Deploy and manage database solutions on AWS, including EC2 instances and S3 storage.
• Implement best practices for security, scalability, and disaster recovery in a cloud environment.
• Monitor database performance and proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize downtime.
• Implement backup and recovery strategies to safeguard data integrity and availability.
• Perform regular database maintenance tasks such as backups, restores, and integrity checks.
• Monitor database performance and identify areas for optimization.
• Typical duties include analysis, planning, developing requirements documents, building functional models, developing procedures, developing functional architecture, and other related management and technical duties.
• Requires expertise in specialty areas.
• At least 10 years of overall experience in the functional area.
• A bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Master's degree may substitute for 2 years of experience.

• Ten (10) years combined experience in each of the following for relational and cloud-based databases:
  • Database development and software engineering/development
  • Database Design and Data Modeling
  • Requirements analysis/generation
  • Developing systems and software architectures
• Must have 5 years' experience working with Enterprise DB as a database platform engineer in a medium to large scale solutions to include experience with tasks such as data migration, data modeling, automation, modernization, data replication, backup and recovery, and general DBA tasks.
• 7 years of experience with PostgreSQL.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining automated installation scripts.
• Demonstrated experience developing database solutions in a multi-tiered environment.

• Preferred candidate will have proficiency in AWS tools such as:
  Kubernetes, EKS, Diode, Lambda etc. (not all inclusive) orchestrated/deployed in a cloud environment.

Semper Valens Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Semper Valens Solutions proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital/parental status, pregnancy/childbirth, or related conditions, physical or mental disability, genetic information, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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