Cloud Database Reliability Engineer

Description:
Hybrid 2-3 days in office/week in St. Louis, MO

Our client seeks a Cloud Database Reliability Engineer to design, build, and evolve automated database infrastructure for a cloud-native enterprise platform supporting mission-critical applications. You will partner with database professionals to deliver self-service tooling and reusable infrastructure that enables development teams to move faster while maintaining reliability and security. The role emphasizes automation, infrastructure-as-code, and scalable platforms.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80.00 to $110.00/hr. w2

JN -072026-107957

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK for AWS RDS infrastructure across Oracle and Postgres with automation, repeatability, and self-service capabilities.
• Build and maintain automated solutions for database provisioning, patching, backup and recovery, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and tooling to enable developers and DBAs to perform routine database operations safely and independently.
• Collaborate with DevOps and SysOps to implement database security best practices including encryption, IAM policies, and access controls.
• Support long-term database migration initiatives through tooling, automation, and infrastructure improvements.
• Optimize database infrastructure costs using FinOps principles while maintaining performance and reliability standards.
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting for database infrastructure issues with limited on-call.
• Mentor team members on cloud database best practices, automation techniques, and AWS services.
• Stay current with AWS database services and emerging technologies to continuously improve platform capabilities.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and hands-on AWS RDS.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (AWS CDK or CloudFormation preferred; Terraform acceptable).
• Demonstrated experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar tools.
• Scripting skills in Python or TypeScript for automation.
• Production experience with Oracle or Postgres and solid understanding of relational database concepts.
• Experience with AWS IAM, VPC networking, and security best practices.
• Ability to solve problems and work collaboratively across teams.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Preferred: AWS certifications, AWS Lambda, database migration tools, GitOps workflows, monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, OpenSearch), DBA background transitioning to cloud and automation, and FinOps experience.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, database administration, or platform engineering with a track record of delivering automation and infrastructure solutions in production and experience in Agile environments. Experience in regulated industries, accounting, or government environments.