Database Administrator

About Company

About Client:

Our client is a global digital solutions and technology consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company generates annual revenue of over $4.29 billion (₹35,517 crore), reflecting a 4.4% year-over-year growth in USD terms. It has a workforce of around 86,000 professionals operating in more than 40 countries and serves a global client base of over 700 organizations.

Our client operates across several major industry sectors, including Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT), Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Manufacturing & Consumer. In the past year, the company achieved a net profit of $553.4 million (₹4,584.6 crore), marking a 1.4% increase from the previous year. It also recorded a strong order inflow of $5.6 billion, up 15.7% year-over-year, highlighting growing demand across its service lines.

Key focus areas include Digital Transformation, Enterprise AI, Data & Analytics, and Product Engineering—reflecting its strategic commitment to driving innovation and value for clients across industries.

Years of Experience:

Shift if any

EST and UK Time Zone (2PM IST TO 1AM IST) 9 hours

Any Project specific Prerequisite skills (Must have)

Detailed JD

• Database Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain

  highly available and performant Aurora PostgreSQL

  systems in AWS.
• Build tools and scripts (Python, SQL) to automate upgrades or migrate databases from 1 cluster/aws account to another with near zero downtime using DMS & terraform for DMS infrastructure deployment/management.
• Implement

  CI/CD pipelines

  workflows for repeatable, automated rebuild deployments.
• Partner with SREs and service teams to design database solutions that meet application performance and compliance requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex production database issues by analyzing logs, query plans, metrics, and system-level behavior.
• Optimize schema design, queries, and indexes to ensure efficiency and scalability.
• Document operational runbooks, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to a culture of reliability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 5–10 years

  of hands-on experience managing large-scale

  cloud-native databases

  , preferably

  Aurora PostgreSQL

  .
• Strong understanding of

  PostgreSQL internals

  , replication, and performance tuning.
• Experience supporting

  multi-region or zero-downtime

  database migrations or upgrades using DMS.
• Proficiency in

  Python

  for automation and

  SQL

  for database development and optimization.
• Experience with

  AWS database services

  (Aurora Postgresql & DMS).
• Solid grasp of

  CI/CD pipelines

  ,

  Infrastructure-as-Code

  , and

  containers

  (Docker).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; ability to collaborate with distributed teams.