We are hiring a Cloud Database & DevOps Architect to lead the design, automation, and scaling of our mission-critical systems. This role combines deep database expertise (PostgreSQL & MongoDB) with DevOps skills to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability across containerized and cloud environments. You will define best practices for HA, replication, backups, disaster recovery, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with developers and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and manage PostgreSQL and MongoDB clusters with HA, replication, and failover.
- Design and implement backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Containerize and orchestrate databases and services using Docker/Kubernetes.
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for application and DB deployments.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Ansible) for repeatable setups.
- Monitor and tune database and infrastructure performance.
- Ensure security, compliance, and data governance across environments.
- Collaborate with Dev and QA teams for end-to-end delivery pipelines.
Required Skills
- Expert knowledge in PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Strong experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proven track record in HA, clustering, replication, and DR planning.
- Hands-on with DevOps tools (CI/CD pipelines, GitLab CI/Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible (or similar).
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and managed DB services.
- Strong background in monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki).
- Excellent troubleshooting and automation mindset.
Nice to Have- Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
- Knowledge of service mesh / API gateway in K8s environments.
- Security compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2).
