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Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.
Ubiminds is assisting a technology-driven company that operates mission-critical production systems in a cloud and hybrid infrastructure environment. As they continue to modernize their platform and improve automation, they are expanding their infrastructure team to support database reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Challenge
We’re looking for a Database Engineer with strong experience in SQL Server and cloud environments (AWS) to support and evolve production database systems.
In this role, you will be part of a lean, high-impact team responsible for maintaining the stability, performance, and reliability of database platforms across production and non-production environments. This is a hands-on role focused on day-to-day operations, incident response, and continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in high-responsibility production environments. You should be able to handle multiple priorities, act with urgency when issues arise, and take full ownership of database-related problems from identification to resolution.
This role also offers the opportunity to grow into platform engineering and automation, contributing to a more scalable and modern infrastructure over time.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain production and non-production database environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- Monitor database health, performance, and availability, responding to alerts and incidents in a timely manner.
- Perform routine maintenance tasks including backups, restores, patching, and index optimization.
- Troubleshoot database performance issues related to queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
- Support database provisioning, configuration, and upgrade activities.
- Manage database access, roles, and permissions following security best practices.
- Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support deployments and incident resolution.
- Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning and configuration.
- Support CI/CD workflows for database operations using tools like GitLab.
- Document processes, incidents, and configurations to maintain a reliable knowledge base.
- Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce manual work and improve consistency across environments.
- 3–6 years of experience in database administration or database engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server in production environments.
- Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including validation and testing.
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues (query tuning, indexing, execution plans).
- Experience supporting live production systems with minimal supervision.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, including services like RDS.
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience supporting or integrating with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
- Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices.
- Experience with additional databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB.
- Exposure to MongoDB or Snowflake.
- Experience working in hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with automation and infrastructure standardization practices.
- Experience in high-availability or regulated environments (e.g., SaaS, finance).
- Interest in evolving toward platform engineering or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Small, highly collaborative 2-person infrastructure team.
- Direct interaction with engineering and cross-functional teams.
- Environment focused on production stability, responsiveness, and ownership.
- No regular on-call rotation, but flexibility is required when incidents arise.
- Opportunity to work on modernization and automation initiatives.
- Fast-paced environment requiring adaptability and strong prioritization skills.
- Initial screening - Needs a good listening and understaning in English
- Test assessment - to be defined
- Team panel with people from other team they will interact with.
Skills Required
- 3-6 years of experience in database administration or database engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL Server in production environments
- Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues
- Experience supporting live production systems with minimal supervision
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience supporting or integrating with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)
- Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices
What We Do
Ubiminds bridges the gap between talented Latin American (LatAm) software professionals and innovative North American companies. We help companies build and expand high-performing nearshore software teams in LatAm, focusing on AI, product development, and more. We handle everything from recruitment, legal, and HR to cultural integration, so you can focus on building great software. For LatAm software professionals, Ubiminds is your career launchpad to the US and Canada. We connect you with top companies, guide you through the entire process, and offer support with legal and immigration matters, work-life balance, and cultural adaptation.
Why Work With Us
Ubiminds goes beyond talent placement. We're a trusted partner for both companies and talent. We foster strong, distributed teams with a people-first approach built on trust, respect, and growth. Join Ubiminds to change the world through software!
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