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Responsible for designing, administering, and maintaining reliable, secure, andhigh-performing database systems.Combines traditional DBA expertise with Site Reliability Engineering principles toensure availability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence across on-prem andcloud environments.Administer production and non-production databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, MSSQL).

Key Responsibilities

  • Implement backup, replication, clustering, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Monitor database health, system performance, and storage utilization using Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
  • Engineer and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code deployments with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Configure CI/CD pipelines for database schema management and environment provisioning.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to design resilient and fault-tolerant architectures.
  • Required Skills / Must-Have
  • Expert-level knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MSSQL.
  • Deep expertise in backup/recovery, replication, clustering, high availability, and performance tuning.
  • Strong command of query optimization, schema design, and indexing strategieExperience:15+ years in database administration infrastructure automation, and reliability engineering.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred Skills

  • Exposure to large-scale distributed systems (Cassandra, Kafka, ElasticSearch).
  • Experience with Redis Enterprise or high-performance caching architectures.
  • Knowledge of microservices reliability patterns and service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
  • Background in cost optimization, performance benchmarking, and DR design.
  • Experience driving DevOps/SRE adoption and cultural transformation initiatives.
  • 24×7 production support readiness and on-call rotation participation.

Education & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.MCA / BCA / Diploma in Computer Engineering with 15+ years of progressive DBA/SRE experience.

Certifications/Licenses

  • MongoDB Certified DBA Associate (preferred).
  • Oracle MySQL Database Administrator or Microsoft SQL Server Certification.
  • AWS / Azure Database or DevOps Engineer – Professional.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
  • HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Skills Grouping & Synonyms

Database: MySQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / Redis / MSSQL / Replication / HA /SRE: Site Reliability / Automation / CI/CD / Terraform / Ansible / Monitoring / Kubernetes / DevOpsCloud: AWS / Azure / GCP / CloudOps / Docker / OpenShift / Infrastructure / RDS / ScalingObservability: Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog / ELK / EFK

Other Information (Optional)

  • Proven leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and architectural thinking abilities.
  • Passion for reliability, scalability, and automation in enterprise systems.

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