AWS Database Engineer

SOFT's client located in New York, NY ( Hybrid ) is looking for a AWS Database Engineer for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:  
• Expertise and Experience working with Terraform and Gitlab pipelines for IaC  
• Expertise and Experience with cloud and SaaS database – AWS RDS databases ( Postgres, MySQL, oracle) . Databricks and Mongo Atlas highly prefred  
• Experience deploying and maintaining mult-region database deployments in AWS  
• Practical understanding of infrastructure technologies – compute, network and storage.  
• hands-on experience of VPC, AWS Transit VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect methodologies.  
  
Preferred :  
Experience with containerization technologies including AWS EKS,ECS, Kubernetes (EKS)  
  
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field  
Responsibilities:  
• Engineer cloud (AWS) database solutions that balance performance ,durability and security  
• Assist in migrating on-prem database(oracle and SQL ) to AWS  
• Experience deploying and maintaining multi-region database deployments in AWS  
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform and Gitlab  
• Assist in diagnosing and remediating problems including Database performance issues  
• Write IaC code to install custom applications and COTS tools in AWS  
• Assist in ad hoc projects, assignments and responsibilities as necessary