Database Engineer - Oracle OpenSource DevOps

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Position Summary:

A Database Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing automated solutions for managing and optimizing databases within an organization. This role combines expertise in Open Source (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB) and Oracle database technologies, programming, and automation to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of database systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain automated solutions for Open Source and Oracle database technologies.

• Design, develop and maintain automated solutions for Open Source and Oracle database deployments, configuration, backup and recovery, monitoring and performance tuning.

• Collaborate with software development teams to integrate database automation process into the software development cycle.

• Implement and maintain database automation frameworks, tools, and scrips to streamline database operations and enhance efficiency.

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within the database environment and propose innovative solutions.

• Perform troubleshooting and resolving database-related issues in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including system administrators, developers, and network engineers.

• Ensure high availability and optimal performance of production databases through effective automation strategies and monitoring techniques.

• Conduct regular performance analysis and capacity planning to optimize database resources.

• Document database automation process, procedures and configuration to ensure knowledge sharing and compliance with organization standards.

• Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and advancement in database automation technologies.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with database concepts, principles, and technologies of Open Source (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB) and Oracle database technologies

• 3+ years of hands on experience with DevOps

• 2+ years of proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash for automation tasks

• 2+ years of experience with database automation frameworks and tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Terraform

• 1+ years of experience with source code management tools like GitHub and GitLab

• 1+ years of experience with CICD tools and methodology

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud, e.g., Azure, GCP, etc.

• Thorough understanding of database architecture, replication, and high availability concepts

• Proficiency in SQL and experience with other database technologies such as SQL Server, DB2 LUW, AlloyDB, Spanner, etc.

• Experience with AI/ML use cases

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.

• Effective communication skills and the ability to work effectively though collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality database automation solutions.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)

Business Overview

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a cul