πUnited Kingdom, Brazil
Database Engineering Architect
closed
Accurate Background
π΅ $120k-$180k
πRemote - United States
Summary
Join Accurate Background as a Database Engineering Architect to lead the transformation of legacy database operations into a cloud-first platform. Build and scale a high-performance database engineering team supporting Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and MongoDB in AWS. Collaborate with various teams to architect, build, optimize, and operate database solutions. This hands-on leadership role demands technical expertise, team-building skills, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. Accurate Background offers a fast-paced environment with growth opportunities. The company provides employment background screenings and cutting-edge products for HR, loss prevention, and security professionals.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in database engineering or database administration with 3+ years leading and managing database engineering teams
- Hands-on experience running MSSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB workloads in AWS at scale
- Expertise in cloud-native database architectures, including managed services like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and/or self-managed clusters on EC2/Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure principles (VPC, IAM, security groups, encryption, multi-AZ deployments)
- Proven success transforming legacy database operations into cloud-optimized, automated environments
- Deep knowledge of high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) strategies, cost optimization, and backup/restore methodologies for databases
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Excellent leadership skills: recruiting, coaching, developing talent, and creating high-trust teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills β able to work cross-functionally and align technical solutions to business goals
- Ability to work with team members from around the globe/experience working with offshore models
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing, cloud-native database engineering team (hire, mentor, and develop top talent)
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for MSSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB database services in AWS
- Ensure security, availability, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency of database platforms
- Partner with Cloud Infrastructure, Software Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure seamless database integration into cloud architectures and applications
- Oversee automation of database provisioning, maintenance, backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and scaling operations (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, etc.)
- Define and enforce best practices for database security, monitoring, performance tuning, and compliance (e.g., encryption, access control, logging)
- Provide hands-on support in solving complex database challenges and performance issues
- Lead capacity planning, budget forecasting, and vendor/license management for database platforms
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and cloud-native thinking across the database organization
- Establish clear KPIs, SLAs, and operational excellence metrics for database services
- Plan and drive the decommissioning or migration of legacy database systems
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS certifications (especially AWS Certified Database - Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect)
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators for databases (e.g., MongoDB Atlas Operator, SQL Server HA with Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with serverless database patterns (e.g., Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, DynamoDB hybrid architectures)
- Experience with security frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks) and compliance (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA)
- Familiarity with FinOps concepts to optimize cloud database costs
- Experience migrating large-scale database workloads to AWS
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines for database schema changes (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase)
- Knowledge of observability tooling for databases (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and 401k
- Annual performance-based bonus, commission, or other variable pay plan
This job is filled or no longer available
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