Expert Database Administrator

Overview

Join the Shared Services Database Engineering team as an Expert Database Administrator (TP4) and senior individual contributor. Provide technical leadership across enterprise database platforms supporting product engineering, SaaS operations, customer implementations, cloud transformation initiatives, and large-scale modernization programs.

What you'll do

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms.
• Define and maintain database standards, architecture principles, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership for complex database initiatives across engineering and customer environments.
• Drive database reliability, scalability, security, and performance improvements.
• Review and guide database architecture and schema designs.
• Provide recommendations on logical and physical data modelling strategies.
• Evaluate database design decisions for scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with product and architecture teams to establish database standards and governance.
• Lead root cause analysis for complex database performance issues.
• Analyze execution plans, locking, contention, indexing strategies, and workload patterns.
• Optimize SQL workloads and database configurations.
• Establish proactive performance monitoring and capacity planning practices.
• Support enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
• Design and support database workloads on Microsoft Azure.
• Lead Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration assessments and execution activities.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and cloud-native database solutions.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Shell and Batch scripting.
• Drive automation of deployments, database health checks, patching, monitoring, backup validation, and operational tasks.
• Support DevOps and CI/CD initiatives related to database lifecycle management.
• Improve DBA operational efficiency through automation and tooling.
• Mentor database administrators and engineers.
• Conduct technical reviews and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Support skill development initiatives across engineering teams.
• Contribute to database strategy and long-term roadmap planning.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of hands-on database administration experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of strong Oracle Database Administration experience.
• 3+ years of strong PostgreSQL Database Administration experience.
• Demonstrable experience managing large-scale mission-critical database environments.
• Experience supporting production, SaaS, or enterprise application platforms.
• Expert-level Oracle Database Administration.
• Strong PostgreSQL Administration experience.
• Strong SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong Shell Scripting and Batch Scripting experience.
• Advanced understanding of database architecture, database internals, data modelling, database design principles, query optimization, backup and recovery, high availability and disaster recovery, and database security and governance.
• Experience with Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, RMAN Backup & Recovery, Oracle Performance Diagnostics, PostgreSQL Replication, PostgreSQL Backup & Recovery, and PostgreSQL Performance Tuning.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Experience with Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of Kafka administration, architecture, and integration patterns.
• Experience working with containerized applications and Kubernetes clusters.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
• Experience with database modernization and migration programs.
• Experience supporting banking, financial services, or other mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Oracle and/or PostgreSQL certifications preferred.
• Relevant Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cloud, or Kubernetes certifications are advantageous.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Hybrid working arrangements are offered.