Cloud Database Platform Engineer

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security privacy and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI DNS and certificate lifecycle management to secure infrastructure software devices messages AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100000 organizations including 90% of the Fortune 500 choose DigiCert to stop todays threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future

Job summary

We are looking for a Cloud Database Platform Engineer to design build and operate scalable highly available database platforms across AWS and distributed environments. This role goes beyond traditional DBA responsibilities - focusing on platform engineering automation reliability and performance at scale. You will own database infrastructure as code drive standardization and partner closely with engineering teams to optimize data architecture and operational excellence.

What you will do

• Design deploy and manage AWS RDS and Aurora environments (Aurora MariaDB Postgres).
• Operate and optimize Apache Cassandra clusters in distributed multi-region environments.
• Build and maintain database infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) as a core practice.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for RDS provisioning Networking and security configurations and Backup and DR policies.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies (multi-AZ replicas cross-region failover).
• Define and enforce database platform standards (provisioning configuration monitoring).
• Optimize performance through query tuning indexing strategies parameter tuning.
• Build observability and monitoring solutions (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana New Relic).
• Automate operational workflows and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Support database migrations (on-prem AWS RDBMS Cassandra where applicable).
• Partner with engineering teams on schema design data modeling and scalability patterns.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response and root cause analysis.

What you will have

• 3 years in database engineering SRE or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS / Aurora (production environments) Terraform (required not optional).
• Experience working with distributed databases (e.g. Cassandra).
• Deep understanding of High availability & DR strategies Performance tuning Capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of AWS ecosystem RDS EC2 VPC IAM CloudWatch.
• Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code at scale (e.g. Terraform modules State management CI/CD integration).
• Linux systems administration experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and production incident management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes-based database deployments (K8ssandra operators).
• Familiarity with AWS DMS / migration frameworks.
• Experience with DataStax Astra DB or managed Cassandra services.
• Exposure to DevOps / GitOps workflows.
• Multi-cloud experience.

Benefits

• Generous time off policies.
• Top shelf benefits.
• Education wellness and lifestyle support.

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