Database Engineer at Ubiminds

About Ubiminds

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Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.

Ubiminds is assisting a technology-driven company that operates mission-critical production systems in a cloud and hybrid infrastructure environment. As they continue to modernize their platform and improve automation, they are expanding their infrastructure team to support database reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Database Engineer to help maintain and evolve production database environments while ensuring high levels of stability, performance, and reliability.

In this role, you will work across cloud and hybrid infrastructure, supporting day-to-day database operations, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing to automation initiatives. You’ll collaborate closely with application and infrastructure teams while helping improve operational consistency through Infrastructure as Code and modern deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain production and non-production database environments across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Monitor database health, performance, and availability, responding to alerts and incidents in a timely manner.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks including backups, restores, patching, and index optimization.
• Troubleshoot database performance issues related to queries, indexing, locking, and resource utilization.
• Support database provisioning, configuration, and upgrade activities.
• Manage database access, roles, and permissions following security best practices.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to support deployments and incident resolution.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning and configuration.
• Support CI/CD workflows for database operations using tools like GitLab.
• Document processes, incidents, and configurations to maintain a reliable knowledge base.
• Contribute to automation initiatives to reduce manual work and improve consistency across environments.

Mandatory Skills

• 3–6 years of experience in database administration or database engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server in production environments.
• Solid understanding of backup and recovery strategies, including validation and testing.
• Experience troubleshooting database performance issues (query tuning, indexing, execution plans, migrations, admin, installs).
• Experience supporting live production systems with minimal supervision.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with AWS, including services like RDS.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience supporting or integrating with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
• Basic scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Experience with additional databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MariaDB.
• Exposure to MongoDB or Snowflake.
• Experience working in hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with automation and infrastructure standardization practices.
• Experience in high-availability or regulated environments (e.g., SaaS, finance).
• Interest in evolving toward platform engineering or cloud infrastructure roles.

Team & Environment

• Collaborative Infrastructure team supporting mission-critical production environments.
• Opportunity to work across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Close collaboration with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams.
• Environment focused on operational excellence, reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.

About Ubiminds

Our Culture

• People First. We are all about people!
• Challenge yourself. There’s always room for improvement and continuous improvement is in our essence.
• Make it happen. Be ready to take challenges as they come. It’s all about attitude and commitment.
• We’re in this together. We work as a team, thrive as a team, and evolve as a team.
• Averaging on awesome. We work hard to deliver high-quality services and look forward to exceeding expectations.
• Keep it real. We promise you honesty, transparency, and openness, regardless of the situation.

Perks and Benefits

• You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
• Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
• Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
• Get your own MacBook (none of that “bring your own device” stuff here).
• Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
• Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
• Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
• Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games.

Hiring Process

• Initial screening - Needs a good listening and understanding in English
• Test assessment - to be defined
• Team panel with people from other team they will interact with.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.