DevOps Engineer - Vice President

<p> </p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company’s <strong>SQL and NoSQL database platforms</strong>.  The role operates within a database team who partners with application engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure databases are <strong>scalable, resilient, secure, and observable</strong> across all environments.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Platform Performance & Scalability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own end‑to‑end performance of <strong>SQL and NoSQL databases</strong> across environments, including query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning of database runtime parameters (e.g., PostgreSQL query plans, MongoDB indexes, DynamoDB access patterns).</li> <li>Proactively prevent performance regressions through representative load testing, performance analysis tooling, and CI/CD validation gates.</li> <li>Partner with application teams on <strong>schema design, data modeling, and workload‑driven performance improvements</strong>, including <strong>relational schemas, document models, and NoSQL access patterns</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Reliability, High Availability & Disaster Recovery</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, operate, and harden production‑grade <strong>SQL, NoSQL, and document database systems</strong> with strong replication, failover, backup/restore, and security controls.</li> <li>Define, implement, and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including routine restore testing and compliance with RPO/RTO objectives.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Observability & Operational Excellence</strong></p> <ul> <li>Establish SLIs and SLOs for database health, including latency, error rates, contention, replication lag, storage growth, and cache efficiency across <strong>SQL & NoSQL databases</strong>.</li> <li>Deliver actionable dashboards and alerts and maintain operational runbooks alongside up‑to‑date documentation.</li> <li>Lead or participate in production incident response and post‑incident reviews related to database platforms.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Security, Governance & Automation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Enforce database security best practices in partnership with InfoSec, including least privilege access, RBAC, auditing, encryption, secure secret handling, access reviews, and secure service‑to‑database authentication across <strong>SQL and NoSQL data stores</strong>.&lt