Job Description
About the Role
iCapital is looking to hire a DevOps Database Engineer to join the Platform Infrastructure team. This role is responsible for owning the performance, reliability, security, and operation of the company’s SQL and NoSQL database platforms. The role operates within a database team who partners with application engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure databases are scalable, resilient, secure, and observable across all environments.
Responsibilities
- Own end to end performance of SQL and NoSQL databases across environments, including query optimization, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning of database runtime parameters (i.e. PostgreSQL query plans, MongoDB indexes, DynamoDB access patterns).
- Prevent performance regressions proactively through representative load testing, performance analysis tooling, and CI or CD validation gates.
- Partner with application teams on schema design, data modeling, and workload driven performance improvements, including relational schemas, document models, and NoSQL access patterns.
- Design, operate, and harden production grade SQL, NoSQL, and document database systems with strong replication, failover, backup or restore, and security controls.
- Define, implement, and validate backup and disaster recovery strategies, including routine restore testing and compliance with RPO and RTO objectives.
- Establish SLIs and SLOs for database health, including latency, error rates, contention, replication lag, storage growth, and cache efficiency across SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Deliver actionable dashboards and alerts and maintain operational runbooks alongside up to date documentation.
- Lead or participate in production incident response and post incident reviews related to database platforms.
- Enforce database security best practices in partnership with InfoSec, including least privilege access, RBAC, auditing, encryption, secure secret handling, access reviews, and secure service to database authentication across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
- Codify database infrastructure and operations using Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and CI or CD pipelines.
- Standardize baseline configurations, schema migration practices, and operational guardrails across relational, document, and NoSQL databases.
Qualifications
- Hands‑on experience operating production‑scale SQL and NoSQL databases, with strong troubleshooting skills under pressure
- Experience with managed cloud database services, including SQL and NoSQL databases (i.e. AWS RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, DocumentDB, DynamoDB)
- Deep expertise across the following areas like performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, vacuum/auto vacuum, bloat management, data modeling, backup/restore, capacity planning, scalability design, and cost and performance tradeoffs
- Experience with observability, alerting, and operational metrics for data platforms
- Automation‑first mindset with hands‑on experience in Infrastructure as Code, Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, and repeatable operational runbooks
- Experience with IAM‑based access controls, KMS and encryption, secrets management, and compliance‑driven governance controls
- Proven experience developing and maintaining Terraform modules
- Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting experience such as Bash or Python
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for database‑adjacent workloads
Benefits
The base salary range for this role is $110,000 to $135,000 depending on level. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.
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