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# Database Automation Engineer

- **Company:** CVS Health
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $64,890.0 - $173,040.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cluster Analysis, Databases, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Database Theory, DevOps, Document-Oriented Databases, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Windows PowerShell, Ansible, Software Engineering, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Mttr, Gitlab, Puppet, Terraform, Software Version Control, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/3560EEC142814F04BDF11F47B7AD663F/job/

## About the Role

* 2+ years of experience with relational databases with a focus on automation and AI Ops
 * 1+ years in proven experience as a Database Administrator or similar role, with a focus on automation
 * 1+ years of experience with database concepts, principles, and technologies
 * 1+ years of experience in scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automation tasks
 * 1+ years of experience with database automation frameworks and tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Terraform
 * 1+ years of experience with source code management tools like GitHub, GitLab
 * 1+ years of experience with CI/CD orchestration tool like Jenkins, GitHub Action, * Solid understanding of database architecture, replication, clustering, and high availability concepts
 * Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, principles and technologies
 * Experience with Cloud, e.g., Azure, GCP, etc.
 * Understanding of database architecture, replication, and high availability concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

## Description

The Database Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining intelligent automation and DevOps capabilities across enterprise database platforms. This role drives an automation-first and AIOps-driven operating model to improve database reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency across both on-premises and cloud environments. The position enables resilient, self-service, and insight-driven database operations by standardizing automation frameworks and modern operational practices., This role leverages AI-driven monitoring and automated remediation to proactively detect and resolve issues, reduce MTTD/MTTR, and mitigate operational and compliance risk across mission-critical database platforms. The Database Automation Engineer also embeds Database DevOps practices into CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster, safer delivery of schema changes, platform upgrades, and environment refreshes while maintaining strong governance, auditability, and control., * Design, develop and maintain automated solutions for relational database management systems (RDMS) using Database AI Ops.

 * Collaborate with software development teams to integrate database automation process into the software development cycle.
 * Implement and maintain database automation frameworks, tools, and scrips to streamline database operations and enhance efficiency.
 * Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within the database environment and propose innovative solutions.
 * Troubleshooting automation pipeline failures
 * Implementing Database DevOps
 * Ensure high availability and optimal performance of production databases through effective automation strategies and monitoring techniques.
 * Document database automation process, procedures and configuration to ensure knowledge sharing and compliance with organization standards.
 * Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and advancement in database automation technologies.


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