Location : Hyderabad / Pune.

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DB Engineering team is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Database Engineer to design, automate, and operate secure, resilient database platform capabilities on AWS. This is a hands-on engineering role combining database expertise with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and cloud automation.

Key Responsibilities :

Database Platform Engineering :

- Engineer and support AWS database platforms including Amazon RDS for Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL; Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Aurora Serverless v2; SQL Server on EC2; and Oracle RDS HA/DR and archival capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging database technologies such as Aurora DSQL and define architecture, TCO, automation, and Day-2 support recommendations.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Automation :

- Develop and maintain enterprise-grade Terraform modules with robust versioning, remote-state management, and policy guardrails.
- Build reusable infrastructure automation for AWS services including RDS, Aurora, SQL Server on EC2, and cross-account operations.
- Author Ansible roles and playbooks for Day-2 operations, compliance remediation, and patching automation.
- Design and develop AWS SSM Automation Documents for infrastructure provisioning and operational procedures.
- Integrate Terraform, Ansible, and AWS automation services with CI/CD platforms to enable automated workflows and drift detection.
- Embed security and compliance controls within infrastructure code,



including IAM policy enforcement and AWS Secrets Manager integrations.
- Develop observability and operational automation through Datadog integrations, log analytics, and health dashboards.

Provisioning & Self-Service Automation :

- Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for RDS, Aurora, SQL Server on EC2, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
- Create Backstage Scaffolder templates and Tech Docs for database provisioning.
- Design secure, versioned, self-service patterns that reduce manual effort.

Required Qualifications :

- 7 years of database, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps experience.
- 3 years of production AWS experience, including RDS, Aurora, EC2, IAM, Lambda, and SSM.
- Solid Terraform expertise, including reusable modules and secure code review practices.
- Practical Ansible expertise, including playbook authoring and CI/CD-based execution.
- Strong knowledge of at least two of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Amazon Aurora.
- Experience with database backup, restore, HA/DR, and operational runbooks.
- Experience with Harness, Git-based source control, or comparable enterprise CI/CD tooling.

Tooling Stack :

- AWS: RDS, Aurora, EC2, DMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, AWS Config, CloudWatch, Lambda, IAM.
- Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Aurora.
- Automation: Terraform, Ansible, AWS SSM, CloudFormation.
- CI/CD: Harness, Git, Backstage, Flyway.
- Security/Observability: StrongDM, Qualys, Datadog, AWS DevOps Guru.

📌 Senior Cloud Database Engineer - Automation & Terraform (India)
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📍 India