Cloud Data Architect - AWS Databases

Location

Our Cloud Data Architect will be an integral part of our Cloud Reliability Engineering team in North America.

Who We Are
DoiT helps fast-growing, digital native companies globally to harness public cloud technology and services to drive business growth. A full-service provider of multi-cloud technology and expertise, DoiT combines the power of intelligent software with deep expertise in Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, and more to deliver the true promise of the cloud at peak efficiency - with ease, not cost. 

An award-winning strategic partner of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure with $2B cloud spend under management, DoiT works alongside more than 3,000 customers in 70 countries. At DoiT, you’ll join a growing team of committed, experienced, and collaborative “Do’ers” who are passionate about solving the most complex cloud challenges. 

The Opportunity

• Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and provide technical guidance and best practices
• Work with customers to design, implement and troubleshoot scalable and secure Relational DBs and NoSQL solutions around AWS Cloud 
• Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and provide technical guidance and best practices
• Collaborate with clients technical teams, including software engineers, cloud operations, data engineers, DBAs, project managers, and business stakeholders, to help them deliver their projects successfully on time and within budget
• Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS technologies and provide thought leadership on how to leverage them to benefit clients
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for AWS-based services

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers development teams, architects, operations teams and leadership to design and architect highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on the AWS platform
• Identify and resolve performance and availability issues with customers
• Help customer monitor and optimize resource utilization to minimize costs
• Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS features and best practices
• The expertise to engineer, develop, and troubleshoot large production-grade distributed systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS), select the appropriate tools to tackle business problems at the right scale
• Designing, building and testing cloud native applications on AWS cloud infrastructure

Qualifications

• Expertise to administer and troubleshoot mission-critical database systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Ability to analyze needs and requirements to design and recommend appropriate database solutions by using AWS services
• DBA experience directly supporting at least one of the following: RDS for MySQL / RDS for PostgreSQL / RDS for SQL Server / RDS Aurora, with particular strengths in:
• Deployment, Migrations and architectural best practices 
• Management and Operations
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Security and encryption
• Optimization and performance tuning
• Experience with RDS features and limitations
• Experience in identifying and optimizing application database code
• Experience performing Database migrations, including AWS DMS

Bonus Points

• AWS Certified Database - Specialty 

Are you a Do’er?

Be your truest self. Work on your terms. Make a difference. 

We are home to a global team of incredible talent who work remotely and have the flexibility to have a schedule that balances your work and home life. We embrace and support leveling up your skills professionally and personally.  

What does being a Do’er mean? We’re all about being entrepreneurial, pursuing knowledge and having fun! 

Sounds too good to be true? Check out our Glassdoor Page.

We thought so too, but we’re here and happy we hit that ‘apply’ button. 

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend 
• Peer Recognition Program

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