Senior Cloud Database Operations Engineer

At Abrigo, we provide market-leading compliance, credit risk, and lending software solutions that financial institutions use to manage risk and drive growth. Our solutions automate key processes and allow our customers to maintain compliance, fight financial crime, process loans quicker, and leverage data to strengthen their portfolio.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Database Engineer to administer, automate, and optimize enterprise database platforms hosted primarily in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This role is responsible for the availability, security, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of both relational and NoSQL databases supporting mission-critical business applications.

The ideal candidate has deep experience managing SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB in cloud environments and is passionate about automation, modernization, disaster recovery, and operational excellence. You will report to the Senior Manager, Cloud Operations. This position will be located at our office in Raleigh, NC, Austin, TX, or remote. Occasional travel required for team events to support engagement, relationship-building, and key decision-making.

What You’ll Do:

Database Administration

• Administer, maintain, and support enterprise databases including:
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Amazon DynamoDB
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security across all database platforms
• Perform database provisioning, upgrades, migrations, patching, and lifecycle management
• Develop and maintain database standards, operational procedures, and governance

AWS Cloud Database Management

• Deploy, and manage AWS database services including: Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon EC2-hosted SQL Server, DynamoDB, DocumentDB   
• Configure Multi-AZ deployments and cross-region disaster recovery
• Implement automated backup, restore, and recovery strategies
• Optimize AWS database infrastructure for performance, availability, and cost efficiency
• Support database modernization and migration initiatives to AWS

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Design and maintain:
  • SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
  • SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances
  • SQL Server Replication
  • MySQL Replication
  • PostgreSQL Streaming Replication
  • MongoDB Replica Sets
• Develop disaster recovery plans and regularly perform failover testing
• Maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)

Performance Tuning

• Monitor and optimize database performance
• Troubleshoot blocking, deadlocks, memory pressure, CPU bottlenecks, and slow queries
• Optimize indexes, execution plans, and storage utilization. Perform capacity planning and workload forecasting

Automation

• Develop automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash and AWS CLI
• Build Infrastructure as Code using: Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Support database deployments through CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & Observability

• Use Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Performance Insights, Grafana and Prometheus
• Monitor database health, replication, backup success, and ca