Senior SQL Database Administrator

Overview

Senior SQL Database Administrator responsible for the performance, availability and security of Verifone's relational database fleet across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL, including an active on-prem-to-AWS migration.

What you'll do

• Deploy, manage, and tune production databases across on-prem, AWS EC2, and RDS/Aurora.
• Plan and execute cloud migrations and minimal-downtime version upgrades.
• Build and run HA/DR (Always On, clustering, streaming replication) against defined RPO/RTO targets.
• Own backup, recovery, monitoring, and alerting, with automation wherever possible.
• Partner with developers and architects on query tuning, schema/index changes, access requests, and capacity planning.
• Follow ITIL change/incident practices and support PCI compliance.
• Share the on-call rotation across all four platforms.
• Review work and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

What you'll need

• 5-7 years of production database administration experience.
• Deep expertise in any two of SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MySQL, including HA, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of the other two, enough for BAU and on-call tasks such as health checks, backups/restores, access management, and basic troubleshooting.
• Hands-on AWS RDS/Aurora experience, ideally with on-prem-to-cloud migrations.
• Solid Windows and/or Linux fundamentals.
• Real automation skills in Python, Ansible, PowerShell, or Shell.
• Experience with a monitoring tool (New Relic, Datadog, Grafana, SolarWinds, or similar).

Nice to have

• PCI or ITIL exposure.
• Terraform/Ansible and CI/CD.
• Schema design.
• Familiarity with MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, or AWS data services (e.g., Redshift).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Verifone is an in-office work culture.
• Share the on-call rotation across all four platforms.