Sr. Database Engineer- Cloud at bswift
$140,000–$160,000from the description
Jul 29, 2026
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Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level database engineering role at a benefits administration SaaS company, focused on administering and optimizing SQL Server environments hosted on AWS EC2, building automation and Infrastructure as Code solutions, and integrating database deployments into CI/CD pipelines. The position bridges traditional DBA operations with modern platform engineering, requiring deep SQL Server expertise alongside cloud and DevOps skills. It suits an experienced database professional comfortable with both hands-on administration and engineering-oriented automation work.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 620 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 130–930
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1242 (Database Administrators) and 15-1243 (Database Architects): the posting emphasizes hands-on administration, performance tuning, and HA/DR operations (DBA), but also calls for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD integration, schema versioning, and platform modernization (Architect). 15-1242 was chosen as the primary because day-to-day operational administration is the dominant workload.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is listed as required, but the posting explicitly accepts 'an equivalent combination of education and experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The monitoring tools (Idera, Redgate, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Performance Insights, Extended Events, SQL Profiler) are listed under the required Skills & Abilities section. Performance Insights is an AWS feature rather than a standalone named product and was omitted as a separate skill; it is covered by the CloudWatch/AWS context.
Terraform and CloudFormation appear together in both the required and preferred sections — listed as required in Skills & Abilities and again as 'advanced experience' under Nice to Have. They are captured once as a required skill with CloudFormation as an alternative.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, and DynamoDB appear only under the Preferred/Nice to Have section and are grouped as alternatives since the posting treats them interchangeably as secondary cloud database platforms.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Always On Availability Groups.
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