Database Administrator

Job Description Database Administrator (DBA)
Position
Database Administrator (DBA)
8+ Years
Experience
Employment Type
Work Location
Department
Full-Time
Greater Noida / Delhi NCR
IT / Infrastructure / Database Administration
IT Manager / Project Manager
Reporting To
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator with 8+ years of hands-on experience in database
administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, security, and troubleshooting. The
candidate will be responsible for maintaining reliable, secure, highly available, and high-performing database
environments supporting enterprise and mission-critical applications.
Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and related database components.
Administer and manage production, staging, development, and disaster-recovery database environments.
Monitor database health, availability, capacity, performance, and resource utilization.

Perform SQL query optimization, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and database performance tuning.
Design, implement, and regularly test backup, restore, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures.
Implement and maintain high-availability and replication solutions such as clustering, mirroring, Always On, Data
Guard, or equivalent technologies.

Identify and resolve database incidents, performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, locking/blocking, deadlocks,
and data integrity problems.

Manage database users, roles, privileges, authentication, access controls, and security policies.
Perform database migration, consolidation, upgrade, and version-integration activities.
Work closely with application developers, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and project teams to support application
releases and deployments.

Develop and maintain database standards, SOPs, operational documentation, monitoring dashboards, and recovery
runbooks.

Participate in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, change management, and production support activities.
Automate routine DBA activities using scripting and database utilities wherever practical.
Support audits, compliance requirements, vulnerability remediation, and database security reviews.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior database administrators and support teams.

Required Technical Skills

Strong hands-on experience with at least one major RDBMS such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or
MySQL.
Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, indexing, and execution-plan
analysis.
Strong knowledge of database architecture, normalization, transactions, locking, concurrency, and data integrity.

Hands-on experience with backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Experience with high availability, replication, clustering, and failover concepts.
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning capabilities.
Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and/or Windows Server environments.
Knowledge of database monitoring and administration tools.
Experience with scripting/automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent is preferred.
Understanding of cloud database services such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL/Managed Instance, or Google Cloud
database services is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Relevant DBA certification such as Microsoft, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, or equivalent is preferred.
Experience supporting enterprise applications and 247 production environments.
Experience in government, PSU, banking, healthcare, or other mission-critical environments is an advantage.

Key Competencies

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent incident management and troubleshooting ability.
Ability to work under pressure in production environments.
Strong communication and coordination skills.
Good documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.
Ability to independently manage database operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Performance Expectations

Maintain high database availability and reliability.
Ensure timely backup verification and recovery readiness.
Proactively identify and resolve performance and capacity issues.
Minimize production incidents and database-related downtime.
Maintain security, access control, documentation, and operational compliance.

Interested candidate can share the resume on this email id :- [email protected]