Senior CloudOps Engineer

About

We are looking for a Senior CloudOps Engineer to work in a team involved in the migration from a monolithic system to a modern, cloud-native microservices platform with domain databases. You will work closely with Solutions Architects, DevOps, CloudOps, and the Database teams to build-out, optimize, secure, highly available data platforms infrastructure with an affinity to RDS databases and participate in database migration.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, DevOps, and CloudOps teams
• Write and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Maintain and enhance Github CI/CD pipelines
• Provision and deploy databases on AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL
• Troubleshoot and resolve database and MS AD SSO connectivity issues
• Schema conversion and data migration from legacy databases (e.g., Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server) to PostgreSQL
• Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability during and after migration

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC, subnets, route tables, security groups
• Experience with infrastructureascode (Terraform & CloudFormation)
• Experience managing IAM roles, policies, and leastprivilege access
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices, Github, and Github Actions
• Experience with AWS Secrets Manager for credential management
• Monitoring/troubleshooting using Performance Insights and CloudWatch metrics
• Knowledge of encryption using AWS KMS (at rest and in transit)
• Experience with secure database access, MS AD, and authentication mechanisms
• Experience configuring MultiAZ, Read Replicas, and crossregion replication

Preferred Skills

• Experience or involvement in RDS migrations from legacy relational databases
• Familiarity w/AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) & schema conversion (SCT)
• Some database administration experience (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
• Familiarity with AWS RDS PostgreSQL or Aurora
• Familiarity with backup, restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery strategies
• Proficiency in Python and familiar with unix scripting such as bash
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, CloudOps or DevOps Engineer)