What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Database Administrator, Sr. position at Infor?
As a Cloud Database Administrator, you will be a key contributor in managing, optimizing, and securing Infor's cloud database infrastructure. You'll work closely with cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams to deliver high-performance, scalable, and resilient data solutions across multiple cloud platforms. This is a hands-on role where innovation, automation, and a customer-first mindset are essential.
A Typical Day in the Life Includes:
- Manage and maintain cloud-based relational and non-relational database systems (Aurora PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) across multiple environments.
- Design and implement high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and data
replication strategies in cloud-native environments. - Automate database provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance tasks using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or cloud-native services.
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize schema design, indexing strategies, and query performance.
- Monitor database health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues to meet SLAs.
- Maintain security best practices for data access, encryption, and compliance with industry standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
- Participate in incident response eTorts and root cause analysis for database-related events.
- Contribute to cloud cost optimization eTorts through eTicient database provisioning and resource management.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in database administration, including cloud-native or hybrid environments.
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS Aurora/RDS, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL/Spanner).
- Experience in SQL and performance tuning across high-volume transactional systems.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Experience of database security, data masking, auditing, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Database - Specialty, Azure Database Administrator Associate, etc.)
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS environments and database scaling strategies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and how databases integrate into DevOps workflows.
- Exposure to NoSQL and data warehousing technologies (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB, Snowflake)