Cloud Database Engineer – AWS

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business. Our expertise, innovation and technology unlocks potential – from taking theme park fans on magical rides, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. We automate, modernize, optimize, and accelerate. Our people are trusted transformers, with deep engineering expertise, focused on a sustainable future for all.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to inspire the future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally important to us.

The team

We’re a leader in cutting-edge innovation, the transformative power of cloud technology, and converged and hyperconverged solutions. Our mission is to empower clients to securely store, manage, and modernize their digital core, unlocking valuable insights and driving data-driven value.

This strong, diverse, and collaborative group of technology professionals collaborate with teams to support our customers as they store, enrich, activate, and monetise their data, brining value to every line of their business.

• Cloud Database Engineer – AWS
  Degree in Information Technology or equivalent
  • Minimum of 8-10 Years of relevant work experience required
  • Experience in managing/supporting ( S3, Route53 , Instance parameter groups , Security groups, VPC, availability zones etc.)
  • Experience with AWS cloud database technologies (ex: RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB etc.)
  • Very strong and solid experience of database administration in a cloud environment. Experience with replication/clustering and partitioning a must
  • Experience writing and executing stress tests on databases and services
  • Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems
  • Very good Knowledge of indexes, index management, statistics, data-at-rest encryption, secure connectivity
  • Good to have with Big Data concepts and technologies, especially using AWS
    What you’ll be doing
  • As AWS Cloud Database Engineer, you will design, build, apply company defined security policies, automate using Could Formation Templates, analyze client workflow, determine the best solution for a successful project, and share knowledge of databases.
  • As a part of the team, you will help the teams adopt to cloud native database solutions.
  • To be successful in this role the candidate must have deep knowledge cloud data technologies and align technology solutions to specific business objectives.
  • What you bring to the team
  • Build Qualification and apply company security policies and harden the database (RDS) to qualify as per the company standards.
  • Prepare the technical documentation and standard operating procedures
  • Create best practices for cloud database operations
  • Automate the build, operation, backup, restore, and monitoring of databases used across our client
  • Develop and evaluate database infrastructure performance criteria and measurement methods
  • Contributing to other support and automation efforts as needed

What you’ll bring 

Proven expertise in your area by virtue of which you can contribute to growth of practice. Subject matter expert who can increase competency in said technology and act as mentor to other team members.

Be at the forefront of the exiting journey Hitachi Digital Solutions has undertaken and contribute immensely through your consulting skills for internal as well as external customers.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.