The ideal candidate has built large-scale automation platforms that manage thousands of relational databases, significantly reduced operational dependence on DBAs, and successfully transformed manual operational processes into highly automated systems while maintaining reliability, scalability, and operational safety. This role focuses on safely automating the full lifecycle of mission-critical database environments, including provisioning, cluster creation, replication, monitoring, diagnostics, configuration management, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, and operational remediation.