Database Engineer/Database Administrator (DBMS)

Role & responsibilities

Database Engineer / Database Administrator (DBMS)

Experience: 810 Years
Skill: Database Technology
Work Locations: Pune, Gurgaon, Kochi, Bengaluru, Noida

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Database Engineer / Database Administrator with strong expertise in database engineering, administration, performance optimization, and production support. The candidate will be responsible for managing highly available, mission-critical database environments across Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

Key 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.

Essential Skills

• 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.

Desirable Skills

• 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.