[Remote] MS SQL Database Engineer with AWS-RDS
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cloudious LLC is one of the fastest emerging IT Solutions and Services company headquartered in San Jose, CA. They are currently hiring a MS SQL Database Engineer with AWS-RDS who will be responsible for managing and migrating MSSQL databases to AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Candidate should have strong expertise in MSSQL database architecture and large-scale migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS, including EC2- and RDS-based deployments
- Experience should include end-to-end database migration lifecycle, covering assessment, migration strategy, schema conversion, data transfer, validation, and post-migration optimization
- Hands-on experience with cross-account and cross-region database migrations leveraging AWS DMS, native backup/restore, and replication mechanisms
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch MS SQL Server databases and RDS
- Well-versed in resolving security violations on MSSQL servers/DB/RDS
- Perform regular database maintenance tasks, including backups, indexing, and integrity checks
- Design, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery plans to ensure minimal downtime on on-premises installations
- Manage and automate backup processes, ensuring data availability and integrity, using native and 3rd party backup tools like Rubrik, AWS Backup service, and S3
- Monitor database performance and proactively tune databases, optimizing SQL queries, indexes, and configurations
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and fast response times
- Design, implement, and manage high-availability solutions, including SQL Server clustering, Always-On Availability Groups, and database mirroring
- Configure and monitor replication strategies such as transactional replication, merge replication, and log shipping to ensure data availability across environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve high availability and replication issues, minimizing downtime and data loss
- Good Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, backup services, and other offerings
- It is good to have experience with other AWS Aurora and RDS (Like Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySql)
Skills
- 12+ years of experience with the MSSQL database
- Preferably certified in MSSQL and AWS
- Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server RDS on AWS and migrations to cloud
- Strong expertise in MSSQL database architecture and large-scale migrations from on-premises data centers to AWS
- Experience with end-to-end database migration lifecycle, covering assessment, migration strategy, schema conversion, data transfer, validation, and post-migration optimization
- Hands-on experience with cross-account and cross-region database migrations leveraging AWS DMS, native backup/restore, and replication mechanisms
- Install, configure, upgrade, and patch MS SQL Server databases and RDS
- Well-versed in resolving security violations on MSSQL servers/DB/RDS
- Perform regular database maintenance tasks, including backups, indexing, and integrity checks
- Design, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery plans to ensure minimal downtime on on-premises installations
- Manage and automate backup processes, ensuring data availability and integrity, using native and 3rd party backup tools like Rubrik, AWS Backup service, and S3
- Monitor database performance and proactively tune databases, optimizing SQL queries, indexes, and configurations
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and fast response times
- Design, implement, and manage high-availability solutions, including SQL Server clustering, Always-On Availability Groups, and database mirroring
- Configure and monitor replication strategies such as transactional replication, merge replication, and log shipping to ensure data availability across environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve high availability and replication issues, minimizing downtime and data loss
- Good experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), such as EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, backup services, and other offerings
- Experience with other AWS Aurora and RDS (Like Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySql)
Company Overview
- In today’s highly connected and competitive business industry, consulting is the core of any organization. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.cloudious.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Cloudious LLC has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 3 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 9 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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