Senior Cloud Architect
Horizontal Talent

Our client is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Cloud Architect to join their team. This role is integral to the development and maintenance of high-performance, scalable, and stable database solutions in AWS with RDS, preferably Oracle/Postgres.

Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with customers, deployment squads, and product management to identify and document use case scenarios
- Lead on all data solution aspects, including setting data standards and providing deep technical expertise to development teams
- Design databases solutions that are highly available and meet disaster recovery requirements
- Design, develop, and maintain automated systems for AWS Cloud-based products and services
- Evaluate existing automation processes and identify areas of improvement
- Work with QA to create detailed test plans and needed tooling to account for targeted performance for production volume data
- Participate in code reviews and create documentation for engineering and cross-functional practices
- Learn new database technologies as necessary

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in database administration, including maintenance, enhancement, designing of data dictionaries, physical and logical database models, and performance tuning. They will also have experience with database administration tools, providing database support for business applications, and scheduling backup jobs for user databases.

Additional Responsibilities:
- Manage database account access and database object changes
- Perform database recovery from logs, hot & cold backups, Export/Imports, and Disaster Recovery
- Conduct root cause analysis for repeated incidents
- Develop capacity planning processes that include monitoring of existing database Instance, Database, Server activities for CPU, Memory, Cache, Logs performance
- Provide escalation Level 2 and 3 Technical 24x7 support
- Research new technologies to address operations reliability and compliance

This role is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned professional looking to make a significant impact on our client's team. The successful candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with a keen eye for detail and a passion for delivering innovative solutions.