Senior Platform Engineer – Database Administration (AWS Focus)

Mastercard
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 96,000 - 163,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Cross-functional collaboration","Incident management","Process improvement"]

Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, highly available database platforms on AWS, supporting critical 24x7 applications. Focus on PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS/Aurora, while leveraging Oracle expertise as an advantage. Own lifecycle activities, performance tuning, monitoring, and root-cause analysis. Build automation for provisioning, patching, backups, and failover using IaC and scripting, and deliver HA/DR through Aurora/RDS Multi-AZ and disaster recovery testing. Partner with application and infrastructure teams.

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2 months ago

Senior Platform Engineer – Database Administration (AWS Focus)

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Job Summary

Design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, highly available database platforms on AWS, supporting critical 24x7 applications. Focus on PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS/Aurora, while leveraging Oracle expertise as an advantage. Own lifecycle activities, performance tuning, monitoring, and root-cause analysis. Build automation for provisioning, patching, backups, and failover using IaC and scripting, and deliver HA/DR through Aurora/RDS Multi-AZ and disaster recovery testing. Partner with application and infrastructure teams.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and manage AWS-based database solutions, including RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL and EC2-hosted and hybrid architectures.
  • •Administer PostgreSQL in production and support Oracle environments as an additional skillset, managing lifecycle tasks like provisioning, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
  • •Monitor performance with AWS tools, perform query tuning and indexing, and run root-cause analysis for incidents.
  • •Build and maintain automation for provisioning, patching, backups, and failover using IaC and scripting, and enable CI/CD for database/schema changes.
  • •Implement and validate high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including Aurora/RDS Multi-AZ and replication/failover drills.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 96,000 - 163,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years in database administration or platform engineering, including production experience in 24x7 environments.
  • •Hands-on PostgreSQL DBA expertise in AWS environments, including Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL) and Aurora PostgreSQL.
  • •Experience with AWS database services and cloud-native database architecture, including EC2-based database deployments.
  • •Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation) and automation, plus scripting with Python and Bash.
  • •Strong knowledge of performance tuning, monitoring/alerting, and high availability/disaster recovery practices.
Experience:7+ years
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementCross-functional collaborationIncident managementProcess improvement
Tech Stack:AWSAmazon RDSAurora PostgreSQLEC2PostgreSQLOracleVPCSecurity groupsIAMCloudWatchCloudTrailTerraformCloudFormationAnsiblePythonBashCI/CDKMSLinux/UnixRedis

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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