Cloud Database Platform Engineer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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DigiCert

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2003

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Logistics • Consulting

DigiCert is a global leader in providing high-assurance digital security solutions. It offers a wide range of services including TLS/SSL certificates, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and IoT (Internet of Things) security solutions. DigiCert's suite of products and services includes certificate lifecycle management, secure signing for code and documents, and devices across various industries such as healthcare, transportation, and smart cities. The company is focused on ensuring digital trust with advanced encryption and identity verification technologies, preparing organizations for the challenges of the quantum era. DigiCert is trusted by the majority of the Global 2000 companies for managing their digital trust needs.

📋 Description

• Design, deploy, and manage AWS RDS and Aurora environments, including Aurora, MariaDB, and Postgres • Operate and optimize Apache Cassandra clusters in distributed, multi-region environments • Build and maintain database infrastructure using Terraform • Develop reusable Terraform modules for RDS provisioning, networking and security configurations, and backup and disaster recovery policies • Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies, including multi-AZ, replicas, and cross-region failover • Define and enforce database platform standards for provisioning, configuration, and monitoring • Optimize performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and parameter tuning • Build observability and monitoring solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic • Automate operational workflows and integrate with CI/CD pipelines • Support database migrations from on-premises to AWS and from RDBMS to Cassandra where applicable • Partner with engineering teams on schema design, data modeling, and scalability patterns • Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response and root cause analysis

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years in database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering roles • Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS / Aurora in production environments • Terraform required, not optional • Experience working with distributed databases such as Cassandra • Deep understanding of high availability and disaster recovery strategies, performance tuning, and capacity planning • Strong knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, including RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch • Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code at scale, including Terraform modules, state management, and CI/CD integration • Linux systems administration experience • Strong troubleshooting and production incident management skills • Nice to have: experience with Kubernetes-based database deployments, AWS DMS or migration frameworks, DataStax, Astra DB or managed Cassandra services, DevOps/GitOps workflows, and multi-cloud environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous time off policies • Top shelf benefits • Education, wellness and lifestyle support