Senior Cloud Data Ops Engineer

November 9, 2026

Job Description

Company: Granite Telecommunications
Location: Quincy, MA
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $140,000–$180,000

About the Role

The Cloud Data Ops team is hiring a Senior Cloud DBA & Data Platform Engineer who brings deep, hands-on DBA expertise across SQL Server, Postgres (w/Timescale) and Oracle, combined with strong cloud-native skills in GCP and AWS. This role is responsible for performance tuning, cloud platform operations, automation, and ensuring the reliability of mission-critical relational and time-series data systems across multiple clouds.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Perform advanced DBA duties including installation, configuration, patching, backup/restore, HA/DR, and security hardening across Postgres and Oracle.
  • Diagnose and tune performance using execution plans, indexing strategies, wait event analysis, and I/O profiling.
  • Operate and optimize workloads on CloudSQL and AWS RDS/Aurora, applying DBA fundamentals to cloud native services.
  • Automate DBA and operational tasks using bash, PowerShell, or Python and contribute to CI/CD workflows (Terraform preferred).

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Strong, hands on DBA experience with Postgres and Oracle.
  • Deep proficiency in SQL, performance tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, and workload optimization.
  • Experience operating databases in GCP (CloudSQL) and/or AWS (RDS/Aurora).
  • Solid Linux skills, including bash scripting and system level troubleshooting.
  • Ability to support mission critical production systems in a multi cloud environment.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps (ADO), or other CI/CD/IaC tooling.
  • Exposure to EKS, GKE, or other Kubernetes platforms.
  • Familiarity with Docker and containerized database operations.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Eligible for bonus.

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