Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer - Database. This role will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of Oracle databases, including installations, upgrades, patching, performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
• Implement automated methods to perform Oracle installation, cloning, patching, upgrades, and migration
• Implement industry best practices for modularized environments using DevOps principles
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and engineer solutions
• Configure high availability and business continuity solutions
• Define monitoring requirements and lead proactive improvements
• Automate SOPs and maintenance tasks
• Act as SME during escalated issues
• Support deployments and change management
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database issues
• Maintain replication and synchronization
• Perform space and capacity planning
• Design and maintain backup and recovery procedures
• Optimize performance and minimize incidents
• Ensure database security and support audits
• Research and introduce cloud and AI-enabled technologies
• Provide on-call support
• Use AI tools for monitoring and root cause analysis
• Implement AI-assisted automation for DBA tasks
• Support predictive alerting and self-healing systems
• Collaborate on AI-enabled applications and data platforms
Skills
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 5+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• U.S. citizenship or otherwise legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• 5+ years managing Oracle, MySQL, Postgres databases
• 5+ years Oracle eBusiness Suite
• 3+ years AWS
• 2+ years AWS RDS
• Strong AWS expertise
• Experience with high availability architectures
• Automation skills for DBA functions
• CloudFormation, Python, Ansible
• Splunk experience
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Knowledge of AI/ML for database operations
• Experience with LLM tools (e.g., AWS Bedrock)
• AI agents and automation frameworks
• Responsible AI and governance understanding
• AI integration with DevOps
• AI for performance and cost optimization
Benefits
• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• A retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Short- and long-term incentives
• Program-specific awards
• Reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment
Company Overview
• Maximus helps governments deliver on their mission with modern services that improve outcomes and citizen experiences. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.maximus.com/.