20 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, evolve, and govern highly available, resilient, secure enterprise database platforms across AWS and GCP.
- Lead reliability, performance, scalability, lifecycle management, and modernization of Microsoft SQL Server platforms toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services.
- Design automation for database provisioning, patching, backup validation, failover testing, and routine maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
- Implement database release automation, CI/CD pipelines, schema versioning, and environment standardization with Platform Engineering.
- Optimize database design, query performance, schema evolution, and deployment strategies for cloud-native and microservices-based applications.
- Establish database observability standards covering telemetry, logging, alerting, and performance analytics.
- Define reliability objectives and recovery strategies, lead root cause analyses and post-mortems, and drive permanent corrective actions after incidents.
- Author engineering standards, reusable automation modules, and technical documentation.
- Evaluate database and data-tier technologies, align roadmaps with business goals, lead cloud migrations, mentor engineers, and influence technical strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of experience designing, supporting, and managing enterprise relational database platforms in production.
- Extensive experience with public cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with incident response, root cause analysis, SRE initiatives, schema versioning, release automation, and database DevOps.
- Experience mentoring engineers, influencing enterprise technical standards, and leading migrations from legacy databases such as SQL Server to cloud-native or open-source platforms.
- Experience supporting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads is preferred.
- Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience is required.
- AWS or Google Cloud Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, ITIL Foundation, or SRE-related certifications are preferred.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration, engine internals, high availability/disaster recovery, performance engineering, PostgreSQL, cloud architectures, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation.
- Advanced scripting or programming ability with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent languages, along with advanced SQL query tuning and distributed data-systems troubleshooting.
- Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry is preferred.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About NextGen
NEXTGEN is an Australia-based technology services and value-added distribution company that helps vendors and channel partners sell cybersecurity, cloud, enterprise software, and data management solutions. It offers software licensing, compliance and audit services, data centre and storage solutions, and go-to-market and digital marketing support. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in North Sydney, it is now part of Exclusive Networks, expanding its reach across international markets.