Local Only! Database Platform Engineer

Job Title:              Database Platform Engineer

Location:             Local to Minnetonka, MN or Madison, WI ONLY Hybrid Only

Duration:             6 Months      CTH after 6 months

Interview:           Video

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 Key Responsibilities

Database Platform Engineering

·         Implement and evolve Snowflake account, environment, and workload architectures aligned with defined platform standards and architectural direction.

·         Support enterprise database platforms including CosmosDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL through shared automation patterns and operational practices.

·         Define and enforce database platform standards for reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Automation and CICD

·         Own and evolve CICD patterns for database platforms enabling safe, repeatable, and automated delivery across environments.

·         Design and implement infrastructure such as code and database change automation using tools such as Terraform, Liquibase, and Git based workflows.

·         Automate environment provisioning, onboarding, and access workflows to reduce manual processes and delivery friction.

·         Ensure consistency across development, test, and production environments.

Cloud and Azure

·         Partner with cloud engineering teams to integrate database platforms with Azure networking, identity, and security architectures.

·         Support cloud first and hybrid database deployment models aligned with enterprise standards.

·         Enable secure and scalable connectivity between database platforms and downstream applications and data services.

Resiliency and Disaster Recovery

·         Implement database replication, failover, and recovery patterns to meet defined recovery objectives.

·         Develop disaster recovery runbooks, validation procedures, and testing practices.

·         Participate in resiliency testing and continuous improvement of recovery strategies.

Observability and Operations

·         Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility for database platforms including performance, capacity, and cost usage.

·         Support incident response and root cause analysis for database platform issues.

·         Reduce operational toil through automation and improved platform standards.

·         Document operational patterns, runbooks, and platform requirements.

Cross Team Collaboration and Technical Leadership

·         Act as a technical lead who influences platform direction and adoption.

·         Partner with application, data, cloud, and security teams to remove delivery bottlenecks related to database platforms.

·         Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and database administrators.

Required Qualifications

·         Strong hands-on experience operating enterprise database platforms in production environments.

·         Experience with Snowflake and any of the following platforms Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.

·         Experience building and operating CICD pipelines for databases or infrastructure platforms.

·         Experience with infrastructure as code and automation practices.

·         Hands-on experience integrating database platforms within Azure environments.

·         Strong understanding of role-based access control, security models, and least privilege design.

·         Ability to work across organizational boundaries and navigate dependency driven environments.

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills.