Sr Cloud Database Engineer
The Hartford3 days ago
Base Salary
$117k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, automate, and support infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments.
- Configure and troubleshoot compute, storage, networking, identity, databases, and application connectivity.
- Apply networking, security, authentication, encryption, least-privilege, secrets-management, logging, and vulnerability-remediation practices.
- Develop reusable automation, integrations, and operational tooling using programming and scripting languages.
- Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, APIs, source control, testing, and CI/CD practices to deliver repeatable changes.
- Support database infrastructure, migrations, backup and recovery, availability, performance, and application integration.
- Use approved AI tools for coding, automation, troubleshooting, analysis, testing, and documentation, and validate their output before use.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex production issues and improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, security, database, and application engineering teams and communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs.
Requirements
- 6–9 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud, systems, platform, or software engineering experience.
- Strong networking fundamentals and hands-on experience diagnosing connectivity issues across applications, databases, servers, and cloud services.
- Working knowledge of identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, least privilege, and enterprise security controls.
- Hands-on AWS experience with compute, storage, networking, IAM, and monitoring.
- Understanding of relational databases and application connection, authentication, permissions, transactions, backup, recovery, availability, and performance concepts.
- Strong programming or scripting ability in one or more of Python, PowerShell, Go, or TypeScript.
- Experience with Git, code reviews, testing, APIs, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and independently validating generated results.
- Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux environments.
- Preferred experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Windows Server, Active Directory, Kerberos, high availability, disaster recovery, database migrations, observability, backup, security monitoring, containers, event-driven architectures, AWS certifications, and regulated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Collaborative, engineering-driven culture with opportunities to build reusable solutions with meaningful operational impact.
- Comprehensive benefits and additional rewards described as part of the total compensation package.
- Continuous learning opportunities across cloud, security, automation, databases, and AI.
Tech Stack
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About The Hartford
The Hartford Financial Services Group is a U.S. insurer providing property and casualty coverage, group benefits, and investment products to individuals and businesses. It distributes policies through independent agents, brokers, and employer-sponsored plans, and offers mutual funds through Hartford Funds. Founded in 1810 and headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker HIG.