AWS RDS DBA / Cloud Database Engineer

AWS RDS DBA / Cloud Database Engineer

We are looking for an experienced AWS RDS DBA / Cloud Database Engineer.

The candidate should have strong hands-on experience in managing production database workloads on AWS.

This role requires knowledge of AWS RDS, AWS DMS, database optimization, RDS Proxy, monitoring, backup, migration, and upgrade planning.

The candidate should not be limited to traditional DBA activities like basic backup, restore, and SQL query writing.

The person should understand cloud database operations, performance tuning, migration planning, and production troubleshooting.

Job Summary

Job Details

• Experience: 2-5
• Role: AWS RDS DBA, Cloud Database Engineer
• Location: Bangalore
• Employment Type: Full time
• Education: Any

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain AWS RDS database instances for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or SQL Server.
• Handle RDS instance creation, configuration, sizing, storage planning, and maintenance.
• Configure and manage RDS backups, snapshots, point-in-time recovery, and restore testing.
• Work with RDS parameter groups, option groups, subnet groups, security groups, and maintenance windows.
• Monitor database health using AWS CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Enhanced Monitoring, and database logs.
• Troubleshoot production issues such as high CPU, high memory usage, high connections, slow queries, deadlocks, replication lag, and IOPS bottlenecks.
• Perform database performance optimization, including query tuning, index optimization, schema review, and workload analysis.
• Work on AWS DMS-based database migration projects.
• Configure AWS DMS source endpoints, target endpoints, replication tasks, full load, CDC, validation, and cutover planning.
• Plan and execute database migration with minimum downtime.
• Prepare rollback plans for database migration and upgrade activities.
• Implement and manage RDS Proxy for connection pooling and high-traffic applications.
• Configure and maintain RDS Multi-AZ, read replicas, storage autoscaling, and failover readiness.
• Plan low-downtime database upgrades using RDS Blue/Green Deployment or replica-based upgrade approach.
• Evaluate and recommend RDS performance features such as Optimized Writes, Optimized Reads, gp3/io2 storage, provisioned IOPS, and instance class upgrades.
• Work with developers and DevOps teams to improve database performance and application stability.
• Implement database security best practices including encryption, SSL/TLS, least privilege access, Secrets Manager, KMS, and audit logging.
• Prepare database health reports, optimization reports, migration plans, upgrade runbooks, and RCA documents.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS administration.
• Good understanding of MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or SQL Server.
• Experience in database performance tuning and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS DMS for database migration or replication.
• Knowledge of full load, CDC, replication tasks, migration validation, and cutover planning.
• Experience with RDS snapshots, automated backups, point-in-time recovery, read replicas, and Multi-AZ.
• Good understanding of RDS Proxy and database connection pooling.
• Experience with CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Enhanced Monitoring, alarms, and database logs.
• Knowledge of parameter groups, option groups, subnet groups, VPC, and security groups.
• Ability to troubleshoot slow queries, indexing issues, locks, deadlocks, replication lag, and high connection issues.
• Understanding of RDS Blue/Green upgrade approach and rollback planning.
• Ability to recommend the right solution between query optimization, indexing, storage tuning, instance upgrade, read replica, or RDS Proxy.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Good to Have Skills

• AWS Certified Database Specialty certification.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification.
• Experience with Amazon Aurora MySQL or Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for RDS infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager, IAM authentication, KMS, and database audit logging.
• Experience with high-traffic SaaS, eCommerce, fintech, healthcare, or enterprise application databases.
• Knowledge of Linux, shell scripting, PowerShell, or Python for DBA automation.
• Experience with SQL Server on AWS RDS.

Candidate Should Know

• How to migrate an on-premise database to AWS RDS using AWS DMS.
• Difference between AWS DMS full load and CDC.
• Difference between Multi-AZ, read replica, snapshot, PITR, and DMS replication.
• When to use RDS Proxy and how it helps in connection-heavy applications.
• How to troubleshoot high CPU, high database connections, slow queries, locks, and IOPS issues in RDS.
• How to plan a low-downtime RDS version upgrade.
• How RDS Blue/Green Deployment works.
• How to create a rollback plan before database migration or upgrade.
• How to use Performance Insights and CloudWatch to identify database bottlenecks.

Minimum Qualification

• 3+ years of experience in database administration or database engineering.
• At least 1 2 years of hands-on production experience with AWS RDS.
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB.
• Experience in database backup, restore, monitoring, troubleshooting, migration, and optimization.

Who Should Not Apply

• Candidates with only local MySQL or SQL Server experience and no AWS RDS exposure.
• Candidates who only know basic backup, restore, and SQL queries.
• Candidates who have not worked on production database troubleshooting.
• Candidates without practical knowledge of AWS RDS, AWS DMS, monitoring, migration, or optimization.

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