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Job Description

About The Opportunity

We are a technology services organisation operating in the Enterprise Data Infrastructure & Database Engineering sector, delivering scalable, resilient database platforms for mission-critical applications across finance, e-commerce, and SaaS. This on-site role is based in India and focuses on architecting and operating large-scale MySQL ecosystems with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and automation.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Design and own the end-to-end MySQL database architecture for production services—high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex performance issues using query analysis, indexing strategies, schema redesign, and configuration tuning to meet SLAs.
  • Implement and maintain replication topologies, clustering solutions, automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and DR runbooks.
  • Build automation and DevOps workflows for provisioning, patching, scaling, and patch rollouts using infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools.
  • Introduce observability and alerting—define SLOs, implement monitoring dashboards, and automate remediation for common failure modes.
  • Collaborate with application, platform, and security teams to define capacity, security hardening, compliance, and change-control processes.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have
  • MySQL
  • InnoDB
  • Query Optimization
  • MySQL Replication
  • High Availability
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Linux
  • Percona Toolkit

Preferred

  • AWS RDS
  • Percona XtraDB Cluster
  • Terraform

Additional Qualifications

  • Proven track record as a MySQL DBA / Database Architect managing production deployments at scale.
  • Strong Linux system administration and scripting capability (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation and incident response.
  • Experience implementing monitoring and observability stacks, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.

Benefits & Culture Highlights

  • Hands-on ownership of critical database platforms and opportunity to shape architecture across products.
  • Collaborative engineering culture with emphasis on automation, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.
  • On-site role with exposure to cross-functional teams and enterprise-grade deployments across India.
To apply, please be prepared to discuss past production incidents you’ve handled, decisions you made to improve availability/performance, and examples of automation you’ve delivered.
Skills: query optimization,innodb,mysql_dba,backup and recovery,high availability,mysql,linux

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