04 Aug
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Netcore
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Mumbai
Job Title: Head of Database Engineering Location:Mumbai Experience: 12–15+ Years Employment Type: Full time About Netcore Cloud
Netcore Cloud is a global AI-first Martech company helping brands acquire, engage, and retain customers through intelligent, personalized experiences. We operate at massive scale across 40+ countries, powering billions of customer interactions every day. Our engineering teams solve some of the most complex data and infrastructure challenges in the industry — and we're looking for exceptional people to lead the way.
Curious what it's like to work here? Check out Life at Netcore - https://netcorecloud.com/careers/ Also Please have a look at our Founder's take on where we're headed: https://www.founderthesis.com/p/rajesh-jain-and-netcore-cloud-the About the Role
We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Database Engineering to own and evolve our entire database ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role that goes beyond operations — you will define the long-term database strategy, drive architectural decisions, lead a high-performing team, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient across our multi-cloud environment (GCP & AWS).
If you thrive in high-scale, 24x7 production environments and love solving hard problems at the intersection of performance, security, and reliability — this role is for you.
What You'll Do
Strategic & Architectural Leadership
Define and execute a long-term database strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, resilience, and security
Lead all architectural decisions across database solutions with a security-by-design approach across GCP and AWS
Drive aggressive cost optimization strategies and provide regular reporting on efficiency and savings
Research and evaluate emerging database technologies to modernize our stack and drive upgrade/consolidation initiatives
Proactively forecast capacity needs to support growing user base, transaction volumes, and data loads
Operational Excellence & Governance
Own end-to-end management, health, and performance of all production and non-production database environments
Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for proactive issue resolution
Champion automation across provisioning, patching, configuration, and routine maintenance
Own database security — encryption (at-rest & in-transit), IAM/RBAC policies, vulnerability management, audits, and hardening
Act as the final escalation point for complex performance issues and deep-dive tuning across diverse database systems
Architect and regularly test robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans
Team Leadership & Collaboration
Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DBAs and Database Engineers
Partner closely with Development, DevOps, Security,
and Product teams for seamless application delivery
Champion DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy regulations
Communicate database strategy, risks, and performance metrics clearly to executive leadership What We're Looking For
Experience: 12–15+ years in database engineering/administration, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in high-scale, 24x7 environments
Polyglot Database Expertise:Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL
NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra
Columnar/Analytics: Vertica, Druid
Search: Elasticsearch
Deep expertise in database security — encryption, network security, RBAC/IAM, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, SOC 2 & ISO 27001
Proven experience managing databases in multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) with a strong track record in cost optimization
Strong background in architectural design — secure, scalable, highly available database systems
Strong automation mindset — Python, Bash scripting;
experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools preferred
Expertise in observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring solutions
Exceptional leadership and communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders Why Join Netcore?
? Immense growth and continuous learning opportunities
? Solve complex engineering problems at massive scale
? Work with top industry talent and global brands
? Open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation and ownership
📌 Head- DBA (Mumbai)
🏢 Netcore
📍 Mumbai