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Cloud Database Platform Engineer

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Summary

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available database platforms on AWS and distributed environments, focusing on automation, reliability, and performance using RDS, Aurora, Cassandra, and Terraform.

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job summary

We are looking for a Cloud Database Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, highly available database platforms across AWS and distributed environments. This role goes beyond traditional DBA responsibilities - focusing on platform engineering, automation, reliability, and performance at scale. You will own database infrastructure as code, drive standardization, and partner closely with engineering teams to optimize data architecture and operational excellence.

What you will do

  • Design, deploy, and manage AWS RDS and Aurora environments (Aurora, MariaDB, Postgres).
  • Operate and optimize Apache Cassandra clusters in distributed, multi-region environments.
  • Build and maintain database infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) as a core practice.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules for RDS provisioning, Networking and security configurations and Backup and DR policies.
  • Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies (multi-AZ, replicas, cross-region failover).
  • Define and enforce database platform standards (provisioning, configuration, monitoring).
  • Optimize performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, parameter tuning.
  • Build observability and monitoring solutions (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic).
  • Automate operational workflows and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Support database migrations (on-prem → AWS, RDBMS → 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.

What you will have

  • 3+ years in database engineering, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS RDS / Aurora (production environments), Terraform (required, not optional).
  • Experience working with distributed databases (e.g. Cassandra).
  • Deep understanding of High availability & DR strategies, Performance tuning, Capacity planning.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS ecosystem RDS, EC2, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
  • Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code at scale (e.g. Terraform modules, State management, CI/CD integration).
  • Linux systems administration experience.
  • Strong troubleshooting and production incident management skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Kubernetes-based database deployments (K8ssandra, operators).
  • Familiarity with AWS DMS / migration frameworks.
  • Experience with DataStax, Astra DB, or managed Cassandra services.
  • Exposure to DevOps / GitOps workflows.
  • Multi-cloud experience.

Benefits

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

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

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  • As part of the employment process, all candidates are subject to employment and education verification, as well as a comprehensive background check, in accordance with applicable laws and company policies. I understand that I will be provided with additional information and asked to provide authorization before any such checks are conducted.  choose one
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  • Is your current location in Bangalore?

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