Senior Dev Ops Engineers

Senior Lead Database Platform Engineer This role is focused on leading the architecture, engineering, automation, and modernization of enterprise database platforms across a large-scale environment. The ideal candidate will operate at the intersection of database engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, and automation.

Key Technologies Database Engineering MongoDB Redis Graph Databases (Neo4j, GraphDB, Stardog) Azure Cloud Terraform Ansible Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines Infrastructure as Code (IaC) API-Driven Platforms Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus Must Have Experience 7+ years of Database Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience Strong Azure cloud architecture and engineering background Deep Database Engineering experience with MongoDB, Redis, and distributed database platforms Terraform and Ansible automation expertise Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform deployments Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Platform Engineering principles Designing highly available, scalable, resilient database platforms Kubernetes and containerized platform deployments Performance tuning, database optimization, sharding, replication, disaster recovery, and backup/recovery strategies Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architecture experience API-first and automation-driven platform development Responsibilities Own the architecture and engineering strategy for enterprise database platforms Lead database engineering efforts across MongoDB, Redis, and Graph database technologies Design scalable, resilient, and secure database solutions Develop automation frameworks, deployment templates, and standardized provisioning workflows Build self-service, API-driven database platforms Drive adoption of Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code Partner with cloud, infrastructure, security, and operations teams Establish architecture standards, governance, and engineering best practices Lead performance engineering, resiliency planning, capacity management, and database optimization initiatives Enable Kubernetes/operator-based database management solutions Nice to Have Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience GraphRAG, AI/ML, or knowledge graph exposure Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform leadership experience Data governance and enterprise data architecture knowledge What They're Looking For This is a hands-on Architect/Lead-level role for someone who has a strong database engineering foundation and can modernize enterprise database platforms through Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation.

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