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Cloud Services Database Specialist
Centric SoftwareUnited States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Sept 2025
💰 $160,000/yr($130,000/yr – $160,000/yr)
About the role
Job Title: Cloud Services Database Specialist
Location: Remote – USA or Canada (ET)
Compensation: $130.000 - $160,000 USD (depending on location)
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary:
As a Database Specialist, you will be responsible for working with common relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, and PostgreSQL), as well as preferably have an understanding of NoSQL databases (MongoDB specifically), deployed on both traditional servers, as well as Cloud Managed instances (AWS, Azure and GCP), as well as containerised versions.
From a day-to-day perspective, you will be the subject matter expert assisting our global operations team who are responsible for a large number of databases, separated across multiple customer environments, to be proactive in managing instances where underlying issues are to do with those databases, be that such things as long-running queries, or issues relating to their general configuration. This aspect of the work will be working alongside the Cloud Operations team.
While this role does not involve designing database schemas for our core products, it will require you to be able to appreciate, discuss, and understand issues relating to performance with our R&D/DBA community, Performance Testing and DevOps teams, and how we have built this essential component that underpins our software products.
Database design experience will be essential for handling, and working on, internal Cloud Services projects, that underpin the ability of the Cloud Services department to support our day-to-day operational practices.
Job Responsibilities:
Must Haves:
Location: Remote – USA or Canada (ET)
Compensation: $130.000 - $160,000 USD (depending on location)
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary:
As a Database Specialist, you will be responsible for working with common relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, and PostgreSQL), as well as preferably have an understanding of NoSQL databases (MongoDB specifically), deployed on both traditional servers, as well as Cloud Managed instances (AWS, Azure and GCP), as well as containerised versions.
From a day-to-day perspective, you will be the subject matter expert assisting our global operations team who are responsible for a large number of databases, separated across multiple customer environments, to be proactive in managing instances where underlying issues are to do with those databases, be that such things as long-running queries, or issues relating to their general configuration. This aspect of the work will be working alongside the Cloud Operations team.
While this role does not involve designing database schemas for our core products, it will require you to be able to appreciate, discuss, and understand issues relating to performance with our R&D/DBA community, Performance Testing and DevOps teams, and how we have built this essential component that underpins our software products.
Database design experience will be essential for handling, and working on, internal Cloud Services projects, that underpin the ability of the Cloud Services department to support our day-to-day operational practices.
Job Responsibilities:
- Monitor various databases across multiple environments, using established tools, such as DataDog, on a day-to-day basis
- Supporting the Cloud Operations team in handling database issues, and acting as a subject matter expert/escalation point
- Assist in investigating issues related to various databases, and where necessary, liaise with other internal teams in resolving issues
- Work with the Cloud Services Infrastructure Architect in implementing robust backup and disaster recovery strategies for various database platforms for both customer accounts and internal applications
- Supporting the Cloud Operations team in handling Disaster Recovery (DR) operations for databases for customers
- Ensuring database security in respect to the ways in which Centric implements customer databases
- Work on Cloud Services projects, where there is a need for database implementations, to ensure they are performant and secure, to meet our security needs
Must Haves:
- Microsoft Certified: Database Administrator Associate, plus,
- Certification in at least one of the three main cloud providers, especially those that relate to Cloud Managed Database platforms certification:
- AWS: AWS Certified Database – Specialty
- Azure: Azure Database Administrator Associate
- GCP: Cloud Database Engineer
- Or, a degree in a Database-related subject
- Relevant certifications in PostGreSQL and/or MongoDB Administration
- Any exposure to AI data engineering
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