senior cloud platform developer for business company

Work with the different software development and engineering teams to identify optimization opportunities to reduce AWS DB Services costs

Work to fully understand the client’s product and the way it is architected and deployed in the cloud, and the associated costs for each portion of the environmen

Analyze schemas and applications to determine the most appropriate strategies and architectures for databases cost-saving and performance boost:

Determine DB Instance Type and Usage, DB engine type

Right-Sizing Database Instance

Right-Sizing Database Storage

Determine DB Instance Performance

DB Instance tuning to reduce CPU, Memory and IO utilization

Storage AutoScaling

Reducing Retention Period

Disable Multi-AZ when not required

Changing the database region

Stopping and starting database engines

Enabling Data Caching

Maximise Reserved Instances utilization

Opt for Reserved Instances/Savings Plan

Removing manual snapshots

3+ years of experience with Cloud Platform Developer

Experience with AWS Database Engineer or similar role is required

Experience with AWS cloud services, relational and NoSQL databases

Experience with writing good quality database functional code: stored procedures, functions, triggers, and other code objects

Knowledge of storage systems, and distributed systems

Knowledge of database migration software and technologies

Knowledge of at least one of AWS DB (RDS) Services: PostgreSQL, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL