Senior Database Engineer

About the Role:

Senior Database Engineer

Hyderabad

US Shift (2 PM - 11 PM)

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, manage, and maintain databases across development and production environments.
• Perform database administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, views, and indexes.
• Troubleshoot slow queries, blocking, deadlocks, connection issues, and database performance bottlenecks.
• Manage database backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
• Monitor database health, resource utilization, capacity, and performance metrics.
• Manage database security, user access, permissions, and role-based access control.
• Handle database migrations, schema changes, version control, and deployment activities.
• Work with application and DevOps teams to support releases, resolve production issues, and improve database reliability.
• Manage cloud databases, particularly Azure SQL Database and related Azure data services.
• Implement database maintenance plans, monitoring, alerting, and automation.
• Ensure data integrity, availability, security, and compliance with organizational standards.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in database engineering, database administration, or SQL development.
• Strong expertise in

  Microsoft SQL Server (2016/2019/2022)

  and Azure SQL Database.
• Excellent knowledge of T-SQL, query execution plans, indexing strategies, and performance optimization.
• Experience with database troubleshooting, blocking, deadlocks, transactions, and concurrency management.
• Hands-on experience with backup and recovery, database maintenance, and production support.
• Experience managing database deployments, schema migrations, and release processes.
• Good understanding of database architecture, normalization, data modeling, and data warehousing concepts.
• Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving critical production database issues.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud services and cloud database management.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and other relational databases.
• Experience with database automation using PowerShell, Python, or Shell scripting.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, and database security best practices.

What we're Looking for:

We need a hands-on engineer who can independently manage databases, identify root causes of complex issues, optimize database performance, and confidently handle production-critical database operations.