Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)

Database Reliability Engineering (DBRE)

Desired Experience Range:

Location of Requirement:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DBRE team managing complex systems, infrastructure, and applications.
• Define and communicate the teams vision and mission, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and technical excellence.
• Architect and oversee database infrastructure across on-premise, cloud (AWS, Azure), and hybrid environments.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging database technologies, tools, and automation platforms.
• Design and review solutions for backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and performance optimisation.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive issue resolution.
• Collaborate with application engineering, cloud DevOps, and security teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience with additional DBMS platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with major database platforms including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Snowflake.

• Proven experience managing production databases in both on-premises and cloud environments (AWS RDS, Azure Managed DBs).
• Demonstrated success in leading and developing technical teams in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting to executive audiences.

• Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or Ruby.

• Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack).

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).
• Experience working in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with a solid understanding of web application infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage and optimize team budgets and resources.