Job Description

SII Group USA is seeking a skilled DevOps Database Administrator (DBA) to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining secure, high-performance AWS RDS environments. You will play a key part in supporting our DevOps efforts by ensuring database stability , integrating with CI/CD pipelines , and enabling automation and observability across systems. This is an opportunity to work in a forward-thinking cloud-first environment alongside experienced engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-availability database infrastructure in AWS (MySQL, Amazon Aurora).
• Monitor database performance, forecast capacity needs, and automate recurring operational tasks.
• Develop and maintain scripts for monitoring, backup, ETL, schema migration, and performance tuning.
• Migrate on-premises databases to AWS cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot database issues, optimize queries, and provide Tier 2/3 support including after-hours on-call.
• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to integrate database services with CI/CD pipelines.
• Enforce security best practices including IAM, encryption, and continuous monitoring.
• Manage environments across development, staging, UAT, and production.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and process improvements.
• Support the development of reporting solutions using AWS QuickSight and other tools.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on cloud database administration.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-based databases, especially AWS RDS (MySQL, Aurora).
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS tools (CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda).
• Strong knowledge of database administration concepts including high availability, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.
• Proficient with scripting and automation (e.g., SQL, shell, Python).
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform.
• Experience supporting ETL processes and data replication strategies.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, self-motivated mindset.
• Experience with DevOps principles and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Comfortable supporting deployments across different environments and locations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Database – Specialty or equivalent certifications.
• Knowledge of MSSQL, Oracle, and database operations on Linux and Windows platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS QuickSight for building reports and dashboards.

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