Database Engineer – RDS PostgreSQL, OpenSearch
KBR, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: South Dakota • United States
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Salary
💰 $107,700 - $161,600 per year
About the role
- Design and implement scalable, highly available database architectures using Amazon RDS (Postgres) and OpenSearch.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, patterns, and best practices for data pipelines, ingestion, search indexing, and replication.
- Conduct in-depth performance tuning including: SQL query optimization Indexing strategy improvements Vacuum/analyze planning
- Lead troubleshooting of database and cluster issues including failovers, replication lag, slow queries, cluster imbalance, and node-level failures.
- Support automation of administrative tasks using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including advanced SQL, performance tuning, query planning, and replication.
- 3+ years of experience with Amazon RDS (Postgres) in production environments.
- 2+ years of experience managing and tuning Amazon OpenSearch clusters.
- Strong understanding of AWS services including EC2, IAM, VPC networking, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, and KMS.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other IaC tools.
- Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation and diagnostics.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, search indexing, and data lifecycle management.
Benefits
- 401K plan with company match
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- AD&D
- flexible spending account
- disability
- paid time off
- flexible work schedule
- support career advancement through professional training and development
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Hard Skills & Tools
PostgreSQLSQLperformance tuningquery planningreplicationAmazon RDSAmazon OpenSearchTerraformCloudFormationscripting (Python, Bash)