DBA Head: 991

Job Title: Head of Database Engineering Location: Mumbai | Experience: 12–15 Years Employment Type: Full-Time

• About Netcore Cloud

• Netcore Cloud is a global AI-first Martech company helping brands acquire, engage, and retain customers through intelligent, personalized experiences. We operate at massive scale across 40+ countries, powering billions of customer interactions every day. Our engineering teams solve some of the most complex data and infrastructure challenges in the industry — and we're looking for exceptional people to lead the way.

• About the Role

• We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Database Engineering to own and evolve our entire database ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role that goes beyond operations — you will define the long-term database strategy, drive architectural decisions, lead a high-performing team, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient across our multi-cloud environment (GCP & AWS).

• If you thrive in high-scale, 24x7 production environments and love solving hard problems at the intersection of performance, security, and reliability — this role is for you.

• What You'll Do

• Strategic & Architectural Leadership

• Define and execute a long-term database strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, resilience, and security

• Lead all architectural decisions across database solutions with a security-by-design approach across GCP and AWS

• Drive aggressive cost optimization strategies and provide regular reporting on efficiency and savings

• Research and evaluate emerging database technologies to modernize our stack and drive upgrade/consolidation initiatives

• Proactively forecast capacity needs to support growing user base, transaction volumes, and data loads

• Operational Excellence & Governance

• Own end-to-end management, health, and performance of all production and non-production database environments

• Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for proactive issue resolution

• Champion automation across provisioning, patching, configuration, and routine maintenance

• Own database security — encryption (at-rest & in-transit), IAM/RBAC policies, vulnerability management, audits, and hardening

• Act as the final escalation point for complex performance issues and deep-dive tuning across diverse database systems

• Architect and regularly test robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans

• Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DBAs and Database Engineers

• Partner closely with Development, DevOps, Security, and Product teams for seamless application delivery

• Champion DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy regulations

• Communicate database strategy, risks, and performance metrics clearly to executive leadership

• What We're Looking For

• Experience: 12–15+ years in database engineering/administration, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in high-scale, 24x7 environments

• Polyglot Database Expertise: Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL

• NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra

• Columnar/Analytics: Vertica, Druid

• Search: Elasticsearch

• Deep expertise in database security — encryption, network security, RBAC/IAM, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, SOC 2 & ISO 27001

• Proven experience managing databases in multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) with a strong track record in cost optimization

• Strong background in architectural design — secure, scalable, highly available database systems

• Strong automation mindset — Python, Bash scripting; experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools preferred

• Expertise in observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring solutions

• Exceptional leadership and communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  

• Why Join Netcore?

• �� Immense growth and continuous learning opportunities

• �� Solve complex engineering problems at massive scale

• �� Work with top industry talent and global brands

• �� Open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation and ownership