Cloud Database Engineer
Westlake, Ohio, United States of America
Contract
3 weeks ago
Key skills
PythonAIArtificial IntelligenceData EngineeringAnalyticsSnowflakeAWSTerraformDynamoDBRDSPostgreSQLOracleCI/CDCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Description:
On-site Every Other Week onsite / 5 days in Westlake, TX
Our client seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and secure database platforms supporting operational and analytical workloads. The role will manage cloud-native and managed services across AWS, including Oracle RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB, with collaboration across application, data engineering, and platform teams. The engineer will drive automation, reliability, performance, security, and disaster recovery for enterprise database environments. Snowflake experience is beneficial but not required.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $63.00 to $68.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Experience Requirements:
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!
On-site Every Other Week onsite / 5 days in Westlake, TX
Our client seeks a Cloud Database Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and secure database platforms supporting operational and analytical workloads. The role will manage cloud-native and managed services across AWS, including Oracle RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB, with collaboration across application, data engineering, and platform teams. The engineer will drive automation, reliability, performance, security, and disaster recovery for enterprise database environments. Snowflake experience is beneficial but not required.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $63.00 to $68.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based database solutions across AWS platforms to ensure availability, performance, and scalability.
- Provide operational support for Oracle RDS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB including tuning, capacity planning, and incident management.
- Implement and manage replication and migration using AWS DMS and Oracle GoldenGate for reliable data movement and modernization.
- Collaborate with data platform teams to support Snowflake environments and analytics workloads.
- Partner with application teams, data engineers, and platform services to onboard and optimize database usage patterns.
- Implement automation for provisioning, monitoring, patching, and failover using infrastructure-as-code and scripting.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and data protection standards.
- Drive continuous improvement in reliability, resiliency, and cost optimization.
- Support disaster recovery strategies, cross-region replication, and high-availability architecture.
Experience Requirements:
- 6 to 8+ years administering Oracle 12c and 19c.
- 3 to 5 years in enterprise cloud database initiatives.
- Strong experience with AWS database services including RDS Oracle, Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
- Hands-on experience with AWS DMS and Oracle GoldenGate.
- Enterprise experience with cloud database architecture, operations, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with Snowflake is a plus.
- Automation with tools such as Terraform and Python and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of database internals, query optimization, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience with multi-region architectures, disaster recovery, and production support.
- Solid communication and collaboration skills.
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!