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# Engineer Senior, Database

- **Company:** FIS, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Cloud Computing, Databases, Database Development, Database Security, Oracle Exadata, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Databases, PCI Data Security Standards, Performance Tuning, System Availability, Cloud Migration, Database Installation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8081376c-d7f1-4c6a-8fb0-503a9eee064c

## About the Role

* 8+ years of database administration or engineering experience.
 * Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database.
 * Knowledge of database security, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and high availability.
 * Develop database standards, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.
 * Experience supporting PCI DSS and SOX compliance requirements within database environments.
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience collaborating across technical teams, application teams, customers, and business stakeholders.

Bonus if you have

 * Hands-on experience operating and supporting Oracle Exadata environments within OCI.
 * Hands-on experience with IBM Guardium for database security and monitoring.
 * Proven experience supporting mission-critical banking platforms and applications within a large enterprise environment.

## Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology.

Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

Hybrid in Puerto Rico (3 days in office) (On call) (Some Weekends)

About the team

The team provides secure, reliable, and highly available database services for critical banking applications, with responsibilities spanning operations, performance, security, compliance, recovery, and cloud modernization.

This role offers the opportunity to work with a variety of database and cloud technologies while collaborating with teams across the organization to solve problems, improve services, and support important technology initiatives.

What you will be doing

This is a Senior Database Engineer role supporting critical database environments and technology initiatives.

You will provide deep technical expertise across supported database platforms, troubleshooting complex database issues and supporting the design and execution of database solutions for major projects, including Azure migrations.

Responsibilities Include

 * Database installation and administrative duties.

 * Database security and hardening, remediation, automation, standardization, and patching.

 * Improving the reliability and efficiency of database services.

 * Act as a technical resource for complex database activities and works to ensure database solutions meet operational, security, and technology requirements.

 * Provide on-call support on a rotational basis.

 * Partner with customers to support business and technology initiatives, providing responsive database expertise, clear communication, and a strong customer-service focus.