Database Administrator

Role & responsibilities

* Installation, configuration, patching, and upgrading of database software.

* Performance tuning (queries, server configuration, indexing, etc.) to ensure optimal database performance.

• Backup, recovery, restore operations; designing disaster recovery plans.
• Ensuring availability, reliability, and security of databases.
• Monitoring and maintaining database health (storage, capacity planning, maintenance).
• Writing and optimizing stored procedures, triggers, views as needed.
• Collaborating with DevOps / infrastructure teams for scripting / automation.
• Watch across 24x7 operational support, oncall, incident management (depending on employer).
• Ensuring compliance with security, data protection, regulatory requirements (permission, encryption, audits).

Preferred candidate profile

* Handson experience with one or more RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.

• Strong knowledge of backup/recovery, high availability setups (e.g., clustering, replication).
• Skills in performance tuning, query optimization.
• Experience with Linux (or appropriate server OS) and shell scripting.
• Understanding of database security and permissions.
• Ability to troubleshoot problems in production environment under pressure.
• Good communication skills & ability to work collaboratively.

• Experience in cloud databases / managed DB services (AWS RDS / Azure / GCP).

• Certifications (Oracle Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified, etc.).
• Experience with database automation, CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to NoSQL or bigdata databases (bonus).