[Remote] Cloud Database Engineer / Modern DBA
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sales Search Partners is recruiting for Interra Health, a fast-growing, multi-cloud SaaS business modernizing its production database operations. The Cloud Database Engineer / Modern DBA will replace manual database administration with automation, observability, Infrastructure as Code, security controls, and cloud-scale reliability practices. The role will optimize database performance, manage cloud database environments, and partner with engineering teams to build scalable and compliant data platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own database performance and reliability — replace manual query and index tuning with automated performance profiling and self-tuning indexing
- Drive schema governance by codifying schema-change guardrails directly into CI/CD pipelines, replacing manual pull-request review as the safety net
- Build policy-as-code access control for database-level permissions (grants & roles), with automated audit trails that satisfy PHI and compliance requirements
- Lead the shift to centralized, IaC-provisioned observability — instrumenting the fleet with automated anomaly detection in place of manually built per-application dashboards
- Partner with Platform Engineering and Production Operations to deploy APM/tracing that auto-correlates delays to root cause, and to set SLOs with automated alert-to-runbook response
- Own automated job-failure detection with real-time Slack/PagerDuty alerting, replacing daily manual review of job history
- Build and maintain an IaC-managed, self-healing database fleet — automated backups, patching, and a unified control plane across regions and clouds
- Apply AI-assisted tooling — query optimization, anomaly triage, runbook generation — to accelerate database automation and cut manual toil, evaluating new AI capabilities as they mature
- Serve as the team's deep database expert, advising Platform Engineering and application teams on data architecture, performance, and reliability trade-offs
- Administer and optimize cloud-based database environments
- Perform query optimization and performance tuning
- Manage Snowflake security roles and permissions
- Automate database administration tasks and operational processes
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineering to improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years administering and optimizing production relational databases
- Demonstrated experience automating manual database operations
- Deep expertise in database performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS)
- Working knowledge of policy-as-code access control and audit/compliance requirements
- Strong cloud database administration experience
- Expertise in query optimization and performance tuning
- Experience managing Snowflake environments
- Strong DBA fundamentals with a modern engineering approach
- Experience with APM/observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, New Relic)
- Multi-cloud database fleets
- Automated alerting/runbook systems
- Healthcare (PHI/HIPAA) or PE-backed, post-merger SaaS environments
- Automation experience using Python (preferred) or PowerShell
Benefits
- This role is fully remote (US), with occasional overlap needed across distributed teammates' time zones.
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