About This Role
This database engineering and administration role focuses on managing highly available, mission-critical database environments. The position suits an experienced professional with strong expertise in database engineering, administration, performance optimization, and production support across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Responsibilities
- Architect, operate, and maintain high-availability database clusters across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
- Perform advanced database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning
- Design and implement database backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover, and disaster recovery strategies
- Maintain high availability and reliability by implementing proactive monitoring, telemetry, and automated alerting
- Manage database replication, clustering, connection management, security, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
- Automate routine database administration and operational tasks using Python, Shell scripting, or equivalent tools
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions
- Participate in on-call rotations to support mission-critical production databases and meet availability targets
- Collaborate with application, platform, security, cloud, and operations teams to ensure database reliability
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and database performance reports
Requirements
- 8–10 years of IT experience in database engineering, database administration, and production support
- Hands-on experience with Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL databases
- Strong knowledge of database architecture, clustering, replication, and high availability
- Expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategies, and capacity planning
- Experience with backup and recovery, PITR, failover, disaster recovery, and RPO/RTO requirements
- Knowledge of database security, access management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management
- Experience with database monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and production troubleshooting
- Hands-on scripting and automation experience using Python, Shell, or similar tools
- Good understanding of Linux/Unix, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and containerized environments
- Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
Nice to have:
- Experience managing large-scale, mission-critical database clusters
- Knowledge of cloud database platforms and containerized production environments
- Experience with database automation, observability, and reliability engineering practices
- Familiarity with high-availability targets, including 99.999% availability requirements
Important Details
- Work locations: Pune, Gurgaon, Kochi, Bengaluru, Noida
About the Company
We are looking for an experienced Database Engineer / Database Administrator with strong expertise in database engineering, administration, performance optimization, and production support.
