Database Developer @ Wilmington Delaware Onsite

Wilmington, DE, US • Posted 11 hours ago • Updated 11 hours ago
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Skills

  • PostgreSQL (preferably Aurora PostgreSQL

Summary

Position: Database Developer

Location: Wilmington Delaware Onsite

Duration: Long Term Contract

Role Summary

  • We are seeking a Database Developer with strong hands-on experience in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Oracle Database, plus working knowledge of infrastructure automation.
  • You ll design, build, optimize, and support database solutions that are secure, performant, and scalable in a cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain database solutions on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Oracle (on-prem or AWS-hosted).
  • Write and optimize SQL/PL/pgSQL (PostgreSQL) and SQL/PL/SQL (Oracle) for performance and maintainability.
  • Develop and maintain stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
  • Perform schema design, data modeling, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
  • Support database operations: backup/restore, patching coordination, upgrades, capacity planning, and incident troubleshooting.
  • Implement data access patterns and integration with applications/services (APIs, batch jobs, ETL/ELT pipelines as applicable).

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain database solutions on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Oracle (on-prem or AWS-hosted).
  • Write and optimize SQL/PL/pgSQL (PostgreSQL) and SQL/PL/SQL (Oracle) for performance and maintainability.
  • Develop and maintain stored procedures, functions, triggers, and views.
  • Perform schema design, data modeling, indexing strategies, and query tuning.
  • Support database operations: backup/restore, patching coordination, upgrades, capacity planning, and incident troubleshooting.
  • Implement data access patterns and integration with applications/services (APIs, batch jobs, ETL/ELT pipelines as applicable).
  • Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for database and supporting AWS components.
  • Work with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS, VPC/Security Groups, and (if applicable) RDS tooling for operations.
  • Enforce security best practices (encryption in transit/at rest, secrets management, least privilege, auditing).
  • Create and maintain documentation: runbooks, standards, deployment procedures, and operational playbooks.
  • Collaborate with application teams, platform/DevOps, and security to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years (adjustable) of database development experience.
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL (preferably Aurora PostgreSQL) including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
  • Strong experience with Oracle Database, including PL/SQL development and optimization.
  • Advanced SQL skills: complex joins, window functions, execution plan analysis, indexing strategies.
  • Experience with AWS fundamentals and hands-on usage of services like EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch.
  • Hands-on Terraform experience (modules, remote state, environments, CI/CD integration is a plus).
  • Understanding of database reliability patterns: replication, HA, read scaling, failover concepts.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

  • Experience with database migration (Oracle PostgreSQL/Aurora) and tools like AWS DMS/SCT (if relevant).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD for database changes (Liquibase/Flyway or similar).
  • Knowledge of monitoring/observability: CloudWatch metrics/logs, performance insights, alerting.
  • Experience with containerized workloads (ECS/EKS) interacting with databases.
  • Experience with data streaming/integration (Kafka/Kinesis), caching (Redis/ElastiCache), or warehousing (Redshift).
  • Scripting skills: Python, Bash, or similar for automation.

Core Skills / Competencies

  • Strong debugging and problem-solving in production environments.
  • Ability to balance performance, reliability, and security.
  • Clear communication and documentation skills.
  • Comfortable working in agile delivery and collaborating across teams.

Thanks & Regards

Rakesh Vangala

Team Lead

Burgeon IT Services LLC.

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  • Dice Id: 10500016
  • Position Id: 8968479
  • Posted 11 hours ago
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