AWS Cloud Database Administrator

About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Data Platform Engineer with 3 to 6 yrs of experience to manage, operate, and optimize enterprise-scale AWS data platforms across production environments. The role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, security, backup compliance, and operational excellence across relational databases, object storage, data lakes, and analytics services.
The ideal candidate should possess strong operational expertise in Amazon RDS/Aurora, Amazon S3, AWS Backup, and AWS-native analytics platforms, with hands-on experience in performance optimization, disaster recovery, governance, monitoring, and automation.
Key Responsibilities:
AWS Database Platform Operation
Manage and operate Amazon RDS and Aurora database environments across development, staging, and production
Configure and maintain Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, replication strategies, and failover mechanisms
Perform database patching, upgrades, maintenance scheduling, and parameter tuning
Monitor database performance, replication lag, storage utilization, and query efficiency
Troubleshoot SQL performance bottlenecks, deadlocks, connectivity issues, and operational failures
Implement backup, recovery, snapshot management, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) strategies
Conduct database restoration validation and disaster recovery drills
Support schema migration and production deployment activities
Perform capacity planning for compute, storage, IOPS, and throughput requirements
AWS Storage & Data Lake Operations
Manage enterprise-scale Amazon S3 storage environments for application, analytics, and archival workloads
Configure bucket policies, lifecycle policies, replication, versioning, and archival strategies
Implement storage tiering and archival workflows using Glacier and Intelligent Tiering
Monitor storage growth, access patterns, and optimize storage costs
Configure and manage cross-region replication (CRR) and same-region replication (SRR)
Ensure secure access management using IAM policies, bucket policies, VPC endpoints, and encryption controls
Support operational management of data lake environments using AWS Glue, Athena, and Lake Formation
Backup, Recovery & Disaster Recover
Configure and manage AWS Backup policies across databases, storage, and related services
Implement centralized backup governance and retention policies
Monitor backup health, recovery points, and backup job success/failure
Design and validate disaster recovery procedures aligned to defined RPO/RTO objectives
Conduct periodic recovery and restoration testing
Manage cross-account and cross-region backup strategies for business continuity
Monitoring, Reliability & Operations
Configure monitoring, alerting, and observability using CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and related AWS services
Develop operational dashboards and automated alerting for critical infrastructure metricss
Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and operational stability of data platform
Troubleshoot production incidents, storage failures, pipeline disruptions, and service degradation
Participate in on-call support and incident management processes
Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and recovery procedures
Security, Governance & Compliance
Implement encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS and AWS-native security controls
Manage secrets, credentials, and database authentication mechanisms
Enforce governance, access control, backup retention, and compliance standards
Support audit readiness and operational compliance reporting
Automation & Cost Optimization
Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda, or scripting too
Optimize database and storage costs through lifecycle management, tiering, reserved capacity, and utilization analysis
Continuously improve operational efficiency, monitoring coverage, and platform reliability
Required Skills & Experience:
Must-Have AWS Services
Amazon RDS / Aurora
Amazon S3
AWS Backup
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS IAM
AWS KMS
Core Technical Skills:
Strong understanding of relational database concepts, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability
Experience with S3 lifecycle management, replication, archival, and storage optimization
Hands-on experience in disaster recovery planning and restoration testing for databases
Experience troubleshooting database and storage performance issues
Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and operational observability
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
Understanding of security best practices and governance controls in AWS
Note: This is not a Data Engineer position. Candidates with primarily Data Engineer/AWS Data Engineer experience are requested not to apply.

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