Database Engineer
Ares Management Corporation1 day ago
Base Salary
$200k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise database platforms including Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and cloud-native database services.
- Design and maintain highly available architectures covering clustering, replication, failover, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Develop automation for database provisioning, configuration management, schema deployments, patching, backup validation, and health monitoring.
- Drive database modernization using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps practices, and cloud database services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
- Develop APIs, utilities, self-service capabilities, and CI/CD workflows for database operations and schema changes.
- Perform performance tuning, query optimization, index management, capacity planning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and database migrations.
- Create operational dashboards, reports, metrics, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, procedures, and disaster recovery runbooks.
- Implement database security controls, encryption, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements in collaboration with Security Operations.
- Partner with development, infrastructure, security, data engineering, and cloud teams on standards, deployment pipelines, architecture, and transformation initiatives.
- Provide escalation support for Service Desk, Infrastructure, Production Support, and Application teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience managing and supporting enterprise database platforms.
- Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle and/or MySQL, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing highly available database environments and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience developing automation with Python, PowerShell, C#, REST APIs, Git, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud database environments.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices is preferred.
- Strong understanding of database security, encryption, authentication, compliance, monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and operational reporting.
- Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Oracle Certified Professional, PostgreSQL certification, ITIL Foundation, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert are preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, planning, organizational, stakeholder management, and project execution skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, collaborate across teams, and translate business and technical requirements into scalable database solutions.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $200,000–$225,000, with potential discretionary performance-based bonus excluded from the stated base range.
- Medical/Rx, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, FSA, HSA with company contribution, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance, and commuter benefits.
- Additional benefits include medical advisory services, mental health and wellbeing apps, financial wellness support, new parent leave, reproductive and adoption assistance, emergency backup care, matching gifts, and education sponsorship.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation is a global alternative investment manager that raises and manages funds across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure for institutional and individual investors. It earns management and performance fees by investing and providing direct lending and other financing solutions to businesses and assets worldwide. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Ares is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (ticker: ARES) with operations across multiple continents.