Database Engineer (532)
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Info on the Database Engineer Want to get to the next step in your international career? We can support you! Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified,
Want to get to the next step in your international career? We can support you!
Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.
Ubiminds is assisting a technology-driven company that operates mission-critical production systems in a cloud and hybrid infrastructure environment. As they continue to modernize their platform and improve automation, they are expanding their infrastructure team to support database reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
We’re looking for a Database Engineer to help maintain and evolve production database environments while ensuring high levels of stability, performance, and reliability.
In this role, you will work across cloud and hybrid infrastructure, supporting day-to-day database operations, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to automation initiatives. You'll collaborate closely with application and infrastructure teams while helping improve operational consistency through Infrastructure as Code and modern deployment practices.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Administer and maintain production and non-production database environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- →Monitor database health, performance, and availability, responding to alerts and incidents in a timely manner.
- →Perform routine maintenance tasks including backups, restores, patching, and index optimization.
- →Troubleshoot database performance issues related to queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
- →Support database provisioning, configuration, and upgrade activities.
- →Manage database access, roles, and permissions following security best practices.
- →Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support deployments and incident resolution.
- →Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning and configuration.
- →Support CI/CD workflows for database operations using tools like GitLab.
- →Document processes, incidents, and configurations to maintain a reliable knowledge base.
- →Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce manual work and improve consistency across environments.
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- 3–6 years of experience in database administration or database engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
- Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including validation and testing.
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues (query tuning, indexing, execution plans, migrations, admin, installs).
- Experience supporting live production systems with minimal supervision.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
- Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including validation and testing.
- Experience troubleshooting database performance issues (query tuning, indexing, execution plans, migrations, admin, installs).
- Experience supporting live production systems with minimal supervision.
- Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices.
Nice to Have
~1 min read- Hands-on experience with AWS, including services like RDS.
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Experience supporting or integrating with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
- Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Experience with additional databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB.
- Exposure to MongoDB or Snowflake.
- Experience working in hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with automation and infrastructure standardization practices.
- Experience in high-availability or regulated environments (e.g., SaaS, finance).
- Interest in evolving toward platform engineering or cloud infrastructure roles.
- Collaborative Infrastructure team supporting mission-critical production environments.
- Opportunity to work across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- Close collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams.
- Environment focused on operational excellence, reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Initial screening - Needs a good listening and understaning in English
- Test assessment - to be defined
- Team panel with people from other team they will interact with.
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- June 22, 2026
- First seen
- June 22, 2026
- Last seen
- June 22, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 68%
- Scored at
- June 22, 2026
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