Principal Systems engineer - Database Administration

Supervises and develops multi-platform converged enterprise engineering solutions targeted to meet existing, enhanced, and new platform solutions for business and infrastructure services. Leads, directs, or recommends cross-functional team targeted for system enhancements for system performance, reliability, scalability, and capacity. Evaluates product and service solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise

database environments across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid platforms.

• Develop and maintain

to streamline database operations.

• Automate critical processes including server provisioning, database deployments, patching, upgrades, certificate management, backup validation, and compliance checks .
• Build

that enable users and engineering teams to provision and manage database environments with minimal manual intervention.

• Lead database

to improve platform resiliency.

• Implement and support

for incident triage, root cause analysis, capacity forecasting, performance diagnostics, and runbook generation.

• Establish and maintain

standards, Git-based workflows, and cloud-native database deployment practices across Azure and AWS environments.

• Drive continuous improvement by reducing operational toil, improving service reliability, enhancing observability, and implementing self-healing automation solutions.

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• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• At least 7 years of experience within a total information technology (IT) environment
• At least 7 years of experience with the design, development and support of technology infrastructure

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong expertise administering

databases, including installation, configuration, upgrades, performance tuning, backup/recovery, and security hardening.

• Advanced proficiency in

and automation engineering with experience building scalable operational frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with

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• Deep understanding of

, database replication technologies, clustering, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Experience designing and implementing

solutions in cloud and hybrid environments.

• Knowledge of

, machine learning-assisted operations, and intelligent automation applications for database management.

• Familiarity with

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• Strong communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and ownership mindset with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive operational innovation.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here .

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.