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DevOps Database Assistant Vice President - iCapital
Software Engineer
Lead DevOps and database initiatives, managing PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other SQL/NoSQL systems on AWS while ensuring robust security and high availability. Drive automation, performance tuning, and cross‑functional collaboration to support enterprise data infrastructure.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and maintain PostgreSQL and MongoDB clusters, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance across production environments.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate database provisioning and configuration.
- Collaborate with security teams to enforce encryption, access controls, and compliance standards for data at rest and in transit.
- Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and conduct capacity planning to meet SLAs and growth targets.
- Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis, and post‑mortem documentation for database and infrastructure events.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps and database administration, with deep expertise in PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Proficient with AWS services (RDS, EC2, S3, IAM) and experience building secure, highly available architectures.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) and familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef).
- Solid understanding of database security best practices, backup/recovery strategies, and performance tuning.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities, capable of guiding cross‑functional teams.
Skills
postgresqlmongodbsqlaws