Job Summary:
ARK Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with strong software engineering skills and database expertise. The role involves designing, automating, and operating production-scale database platforms while collaborating with various engineering teams to deliver database capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Design and build database infrastructure provisioning modules and automation pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD automation for standardized and safe database platform changes.
• Enable self-service database capabilities for application teams.
• Develop platform tooling for database health, security, and compliance visibility.
• Support strategic database migrations and develop migration patterns and standards.
• Create guidance artifacts and documentation for supported database platforms.
• Collaborate on database architecture, performance, and operational readiness.
• Ensure database platforms align with security and compliance standards.
• Integrate database services with IAM controls, networking, and configuration management.
• Participate in technical discussions, shared documentation, and engineering standards.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• 7 years of combined software and infrastructure engineering experience, with hands-on experience in distributed or document-oriented database technology.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (especially Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
• 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.
• Experience with event-driven systems, workflow orchestration, and compliance automation tools.
• Involvement in large-scale database migrations or backend software development experience.
Company:
ARK Solutions is an IT company that offers software consultancy services. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in Reston, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.