Senior Cloud Database Administrator and Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer III - Cloud Database Administrator (DBA)

You belong to the top echelon of talent in your field. At one of the world's most iconic financial institutions, where infrastructure is of paramount importance, you can play a pivotal role.

As an Infrastructure Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Employee Platforms team, you utilize strong knowledge of software, applications, and technical processes within the infrastructure engineering discipline. Apply your technical knowledge and problem-solving methodologies across multiple applications of moderate scope.
Job responsibilities

 

• Lead assessments of the firm’s database infrastructure and define modernization paths across private and public cloud platforms.
• Partner with application teams to plan and execute migrations to latest database products and versions on private cloud and public cloud.
• Administer Oracle and PostgreSQL environments, performing migrations, performance tuning, and end-to-end troubleshooting.
• Identify and implement improvements for resiliency, availability, and performance in public cloud using JPMorganChase best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve critical database issues, including SQL query tuning, indexing, lock and deadlock analysis, and incident recovery.
• Implement and operate database observability using networking diagnostics, monitoring, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, and Dynatrace.
• Manage and optimize cloud database services including AWS RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Redis to meet application SLOs.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using AWS and Terraform, enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code standards and reusable patterns.
• Support production operations by collaborating with application teams to restore service, optimize performance, and proactively prevent recurrences.
• Drive and support adoption of AWS compute and web services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch) aligned to target architecture and controls.
• Ensure 24x7 reliability through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and execution of release deployments, maintenance windows, and upgrades including after-hours coverage.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure disciplines concepts and 3+ years applied experience
•  Hands-on experience with enterprise SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Operate with relevant experiences in multi-cloud environments across AWS, OCI, Azure, or private cloud.
• Execute relevant experience of heterogeneous data migrations across Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB using tools such as Oracle GoldenGate and AWS DMS.
• Deliver relevant experience in tier-1 financial services or similarly regulated, high-availability industries.
• Design and deploy resilient infrastructure platforms using engineered and reference patterns.
• Collaborate closely with application development teams to guide effective use of database services and underlying infrastructure.
• Apply proven database administration expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Configure and use monitoring and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace) for proactive operations.
• Build and maintain Terraform-based IaC and CI/CD pipelines to automate database deployments and changes.

  Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate database changes into CI/CD workflows and release automation.
• Optimize database schemas and queries in partnership with developers to improve end-to-end application performance.
• Document database configurations, operational procedures, and runbooks to strengthen knowledge sharing and audit readiness.
• Demonstrate adaptability and continuous learning to improve processes and expand cloud and database skill sets.

 

Experience Level

Senior Level