Principal Database Engineer
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Principal Database Engineer leading secure, scalable cloud database platforms for NextGen Healthcare’s healthcare applications. Driving SQL Server modernization, automation, reliability, and AWS/GCP migrations.
Responsibilities:
- Define, architect, evolve, and govern highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise database platforms across AWS and GCP
- Lead reliability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle management of Microsoft SQL Server platforms
- Drive enterprise-wide migrations and modernization initiatives toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services
- Design and develop automated frameworks for provisioning, patching, backup validation, failover testing, and routine maintenance using IaC and configuration management
- Partner with Platform Engineering on database release automation, CI/CD pipelines, schema versioning, and environment standardization
- Collaborate with application development teams to optimize database design, query performance, schema evolution, and deployment strategies
- Establish database observability standards, telemetry, logging, alerting, and performance analytics
- Define and improve database reliability objectives, recovery strategies, and operational readiness practices
- Lead root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions after major production incidents
- Author engineering standards, reusable automation modules, and technical documentation
- Align database technology roadmaps with business goals
- Evaluate emerging database and data-tier technologies for reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
- Serve as primary technical authority for database architecture and cloud migrations
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and influence technical strategy across the engineering organization
- Support strategic cloud initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud
- Perform other duties supporting the overall objective of the position
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or any combination of education and experience providing the required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience designing, supporting, and managing enterprise relational database platforms in production
- Extensive experience operating in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices
- Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, SRE initiatives, schema versioning, and release automation
- Experience mentoring engineers, influencing enterprise technical standards, and driving legacy database migrations to cloud-native or open-source platforms
- Experience supporting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads (preferred)
- Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience
- AWS or Google Cloud Professional certification (preferred)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent containerization certification (preferred)
- Terraform Associate or equivalent Infrastructure as Code certification (preferred)
- ITIL Foundation or SRE-related certifications (preferred)
- Expert-level Microsoft SQL Server administration, engine internals, HADR strategies, and performance engineering
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational database platforms
- Knowledge of public cloud architectures, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation
- Advanced scripting and programming using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent languages
- Database performance engineering, advanced SQL query tuning, and troubleshooting of distributed data systems
- Ability to influence technical strategy and communicate complex technical concepts clearly
Benefits:
- Equal opportunity employer
- Inclusive and diverse work environment
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