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About Ellucian Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes. About the Opportunity Ellucian is seeking a Cloud Database Engineer to join our innovative and collaborative Cloud Operations team. In this role, you will help support the cloud database platforms behind Ellucian's SaaS and Managed Cloud solutions for higher education. Working alongside experienced database and platform engineers, you will help maintain the reliability, performance, and security of our cloud database environment while building expertise in automation, cloud technologies, and modern database operations. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with a strong database foundation who is looking to grow their career in cloud operations. Where You Will Make an Impact Operate: • Support production and non-production cloud databases across AWS, including PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Oracle, and NoSQL technologies. • Perform database administration activities including patching, upgrades, configuration, backups, restores, and routine maintenance. • Support high availability, replication, and disaster recovery processes through regular testing and operational preparedness under established procedures. Automate: • Contribute to automation for database provisioning, deployments, backups, and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure as Code practices. • Support database deployments through CI/CD pipelines and modern automation tools. Adopt AI: • Leverage approved AI-assisted tools to improve database operations while following established governance and security practices. • Review AI-assisted outputs and follow established approval, validation, and audit processes. Monitor & Optimize: • Monitor database health, availability, and performance using dashboards, alerts, and observability tools. • Troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and assist in root cause analysis activities. • Assist with database performance tuning and support ongoing capacity planning efforts. Secure: • Apply established security practices including encryption, least-privilege access, audit logging, and data protection standards. • Support compliance initiatives related to FERPA, SOC 2, and other applicable regulatory frameworks. Collaborate: • Partner with Product Engineering, Platform, Security, and Data teams to support reliable application delivery. • Share knowledge with teammates while continuing to build your technical expertise through collaboration, mentorship, and continuous learning. What You Will Bring • 2–3 years of experience supporting production databases or equivalent experience in database administration, cloud operations, or infrastructure. • Experience with PostgreSQL, Oracle, or other relational database platforms. • Experience working in Linux environments and writing scripts using Python, Bash, or similar languages. • Experience with AWS is preferred . Candidates with experience supporting Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or other major cloud providers are encouraged to apply. • Understanding of database backup, recovery, monitoring, performance tuning, and high availability concepts. • Exposure to Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, or database deployment tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Liquibase, Flyway, or similar is preferred. • Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, New Relic, or similar. • Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills. • Curiosity, adaptability, and an interest in modern cloud operations, automation, and AI-assisted engineering practices. What makes #Ellucianlife • Comprehensive health coverage: family major medical expenses, dental and life insurance. • Christmas bonus 30 days • Saving fund • Monthly food coupon • 15 workdays vacation • Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests • 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us • Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few. • Parental leave • Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team • We Foster a learning culture with: • Tuition Reimbursement Assistance • Professional development opportunities • LinkedIn Learning LI-RB1 LI-Remote