The Senior Cloud Database Engineer is responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance and reliability of cloud-based database solutions. This role focuses on leveraging automation and modern practices to optimize database operations and support the development of new services and features. Develop database-centric automation, utilizing infrastructure as Code (IAC), CI/CD processes, and robust scripting that will be consumed by the entire engineering organization. Review database and infrastructure components for automation opportunities, and work with teams to plan and schedule improvements. Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams as an SME, promoting cloud database best practices. Support, mentor and collaborate with Engineering and DevOps team members. Contribute to larger scope architectural discussions to identify preferred solutions for our unified cloud platform, involving timely decision-making, project estimation and extensive analysis. Support legacy technologies and be a driving force to migrate them to new cloud-native solutions. Improve existing incident response processes and introduce new alerting and monitoring to remediate production issues efficiently. Participate in an on-call SME rotation to support production databases and essential infrastructure.