[Remote] Cloud Database Analyst (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TM Floyd & Company is seeking a Cloud Database Analyst for a remote role. The position leads cloud database migrations, designs high-availability and disaster recovery strategies, manages and optimizes cloud-hosted databases, enforces security and compliance standards, tunes SQL performance, and automates routine tasks.
Responsibilities
- Lead database migration and deployment of lift-and-shift projects to cloud platforms
- Design and implement high-availability (HA), backup/restore, snapshots, and disaster recovery (DR) strategies for cloud-based databases
- Enforce cloud security and compliance standards (IAM, VPC policies, data classification)
- Manage and optimize cloud-hosted databases such as AWS RDS or Azure SQL
- Write and tune SQL queries and use monitoring tools to track performance and availability
- Automate routine tasks using scripting languages like Python or PowerShell
Skills
- • 8 years of IT experience, including varied database administration experience
- • Cloud data migration and CI/CD experience
- • Agile experience with familiarity in Jira and Confluence
- • Expertise in backup/recovery, data replication, failover, and cross-region availability
- • Hands-on experience managing and optimizing cloud-hosted relational databases
- • Strong SQL performance tuning and proficiency in writing complex SQL queries
- • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM Templates, or CloudFormation
- • Knowledge of Security and Compliance Frameworks (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP)
- • Understanding of data security, encryption, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, etc.)
- • Familiarity with database monitoring and management tools like CloudWatch, Enhanced Monitoring, Performance Insights (AWS), Azure Monitor
- • U.S. citizens and Green Card holders only
- • Sponsorship is not available for this role; no C2C or third-party candidates
- • Candidates must be able to work on our W2
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree; OR
- • 4 years of job-related work experience; OR
- • 2 years of job-related experience plus an Associate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job- related degree
- • Experience with data warehousing or analytics integration (Redshift, QuickSight, Glue) is a plus
- Cloud Certifications are nice to have
Benefits
- We offer a generous array of benefits, depending on the length of assignment.
- We also offer a referral bonus of up to $1,000.
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