Lead Database Reliability Engineer

Overview

Lead Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) owning hands-on reliability, lifecycle management, technical escalation, automation, and application partnership for a major self-managed Oracle RAC domain.

What you'll do

• Administer and improve Oracle RAC, Grid Infrastructure, Clusterware, ASM, services, SCAN/listeners, and interconnect configurations.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations, capacity changes, and lifecycle activities with controlled change and rollback practices.
• Design, operate, and validate Data Guard, RMAN, backup/recovery, failover, switchover, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Lead performance analysis using AWR, ASH, ADDM, SQL Monitor, execution plans, SQL Trace, TKPROF, and OS/storage diagnostics.
• Diagnose Cache Fusion, GC waits, workload placement, connection storms, cluster instability, storage latency, and interconnect issues.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for critical incidents, lead stabilization and RCA, and drive permanent corrective actions.
• Partner with application teams on SQL, indexing, partitioning, schema design, bind usage, connection pooling, transaction boundaries, and resilient failover behavior.
• Establish database design reviews, deployment guardrails, developer guidance, and production-readiness standards.
• Automate provisioning, validation, patching, maintenance, backup checks, DR exercises, health checks, and recurring remediation using Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Improve Oracle observability using OEM, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, or comparable tools; define actionable service indicators and objectives.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and lead complex initiatives end to end, aligning stakeholders and managing dependencies.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of database or reliability engineering experience, including significant Lead or Senior responsibility for self-managed production Oracle RAC.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Oracle RAC, Grid Infrastructure/Clusterware, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, RAC Services, SCAN/listeners, Cache Fusion, and interconnect behavior.
• Strong Oracle performance tuning and diagnostics experience using AWR, ASH, execution plans, SQL Trace, and Linux diagnostics.
• Experience with patching, upgrades, migrations, backup/recovery, DR exercises, and controlled production change.
• Strong Linux/Unix systems troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on automation using Python, Shell, Ansible, Terraform, or comparable tooling.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, incident communication, and cross-functional execution skills.

Nice to have

• Oracle Exadata, OCI, Cloud@Customer, AWS, or hybrid Oracle deployment experience.
• Application Continuity, FAN, TAF, FSFO, Far Sync, GoldenGate, GDS, TDE, ZDLRA, or advanced Oracle HA capabilities.
• Database schema CI/CD using Liquibase, Flyway, Bytebase, or comparable tooling.
• Oracle certifications or relevant SRE/cloud architecture credentials.

Details

• Location: Pune.
• Work during U.S. Eastern Time (ET) business hours.
• On-call participation as required.