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Senior Platform Engineer

Mindlance

Bethesda, MD(remote)

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Apache Cassandra, Automation, Change Management, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Technology, Disaster Recovery, Documentation Standards, Engineering, Enterprise Protection, Establish Priorities, Go Programming Language (Golang), Incident Management, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Java, Leadership, Machine Tool, Maintain Compliance, Migration Strategy, MongoDB, Network Configuration Management, Network Management Software, Network Security, Node.js, Production Systems, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulatory Compliance, Reliability Engineering, Security Infrastructure, Software Development, Software Engineering, Support Documentation, System Migration, Team Player
LOCATION
Bethesda, MD(remote)
POSTED
22 days ago
Position Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 6 Months contract with possible extension

JOB SUMMARY:
Client is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineer to join our Database Platform team. This role is an experienced individual contributor who combines strong software engineering skills with genuine database expertise and a platform engineering orientation. The engineer contributes to designing, automating, and operating production-scale database platforms that are secure-by-default, resilient-by-design, and easy for application teams to consume. Working closely with Site Reliability Engineering, Networking, Security, and Application Engineering teams, this role delivers database capabilities through Client s Internal Developer Platform enabling self-service provisioning and a consistent developer experience across Couchbase Capella, AWS Aurora, AWS DocumentDB, and AWS ElastiCache. Success in this role requires the ability to navigate complexity, work collaboratively across teams, and consistently deliver outcomes with a degree of independence within a scoped area.

CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
  • Bachelor s degree in an engineering or computer science discipline and/or equivalent professional experience
  • 7+ years of combined software engineering and/or infrastructure engineering experience, including hands-on experience with at least one distributed or document-oriented database technology (e.g., Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra, DocumentDB, or Cosmos DB)
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (particularly Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), with proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming or scripting language (Python, Go, or equivalent)

Preferred:
  • Experience with Couchbase Server or Couchbase Capella, and/or AWS managed database services (Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache)
  • Experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration frameworks, database schema/change management tools (e.g., Liquibase), or compliance automation and policy-as-code tooling
  • Prior involvement in large-scale database migrations in production environments, or backend software development experience (Java, Node.js, Python, or equivalent)

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES:
  • Contribute to the design and build of database infrastructure provisioning modules and automation pipelines, encoding platform standards for security, availability, and cost
  • Implement CI/CD automation to standardize and safely deliver database platform changes across environments
  • Enable self-service database capabilities that allow application teams to execute routine operations independently through Client s Internal Developer Platform
  • Build platform tooling that gives application teams visibility into their database health, security posture, and compliance standing
  • Support strategic database migrations including planning, production cutovers, and post-migration validation in close cooperation with SRE and application teams
  • Contribute to the development of migration patterns and standards that can be executed consistently at scale
  • Develop guidance artifacts and prescriptive documentation for supported database platforms
  • Participate in working sessions with application teams on database architecture, performance, and operational readiness
  • Partner with application teams to identify and close compliance gaps against platform standards
  • Support the design and maintenance of automated disaster recovery capabilities for production database platforms
  • Partner with SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, reliability, incident management, and post-incident analysis
  • Ensure database platforms are secure-by-default and aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards
  • Integrate database services with IAM controls, networking, and configuration management systems
  • Contribute to technical discussions, shared documentation, engineering standards, and patterns.
  • Collaborate with product owners and leadership on roadmap inputs and technical prioritization.


EEO:
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

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