Cloud Database Engineer

Cardinal Health’s WaveMark Solutions is a SaaS-based healthcare clinical supply chain and workflow management platform. The Cloud Database Engineer will support the reliability, performance, security, automation, and disaster recovery of cloud databases while collaborating with software development, IT, security, compliance, and application teams.

Responsibilities:

• Administer Oracle (primary), MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases in managed cloud environments
• Build and manage intelligent monitoring, auditing, logging, and alerting systems to proactively track database health
• Establish and maintain operational standards, documentation, and runbooks
• Support application deployments and database releases
• Analyze and optimize database performance across production and non-production environments
• Perform root cause analysis of performance incidents
• Design, execute, and automate database refresh processes between production and non-production environments
• Design and implement repeatable data masking processes for non-production environments
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and application teams to support regulatory audits
• Partner with security teams to enhance and enforce data governance, patching, secret management, and access controls
• Partner with software development teams to modernize deployment automation and collaborate on modern data movement architectures
• Design and test backup, restore, replication, and failure strategies to meet business recovery time and recovery point objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience managing production Oracle databases in a regulated healthcare environment
• Experience of Oracle database administration and cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS or  GCP
• Knowledge of database automation, scripting, and deployment processes
• Familiarity implementing observability frameworks and telemetry-driven operations
• Knowledge of site reliability engineering principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and automated remediation)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure as Code
• Understanding of healthcare compliance standards, such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, or HITRUST
• Familiarity with change data capture (CDC) technologies
• Experience supporting databases and applications in Kubernetes-based environments
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills