Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Team: Platform / SRE • Experience: 5–8 years • Type: Full-time

Role Overview

Own the reliability, availability, performance, and security of our databases—PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL—running container-native, highly available on Kubernetes. You’ll design the architecture, automate operations, guide domain teams on optimal schema & query design, and lead backup/restore and disaster recovery (DR) with clear RPO/RTO objectives.

What You’ll Do

Architecture & HA

Design and operate HA clusters on Kubernetes (StatefulSets, PDBs, anti-affinity, topology spread, CSI storage, auto-failover).

Choose and operate DB operators/distributions (e.g., Zalando/Crunchy for Postgres, Percona for MongoDB/MySQL or equivalents); maintain versioning/patching strategy.

Implement multi-AZ replicas, read-replicas, and connection pooling/proxying (e.g., pgBouncer/HAProxy/Envoy) for scale.

Performance & Scalability

Capacity planning, sizing, and benchmarking; own p95/p99 latency and throughput KPIs.

Query/index tuning,



VACUUM/ANALYZE/auto-analyze strategies (Postgres), sharding/replica-set tuning (MongoDB), and InnoDB/Group Replication tuning (MySQL).

Data Modeling & Reviews

Partner with domain teams on schema/design reviews, migration strategies (Flyway/Liquibase/Alembic), and query best practices to keep services fast and cost-efficient.

Backup, DR & Compliance

Own backup/restore (base backups, PITR/WAL/GTID, snapshotting), tested DR runbooks, and RPO/RTO targets; run quarterly game days.

Implement data retention, encryption (at rest & in transit), auditing, and access controls (RBAC/KMS/Secrets).

Automation & CI/CD

Everything-as-code: Helm/Terraform/Ansible for DB infra; GitOps pipelines for changes, protected rollout/rollback, and automated smoke checks.

Requirements
Minimum Qualifications

5–8 years as a DBA/DBRE with production experience in PostgreSQL plus MongoDB and MySQL (at least two in depth).

Strong Kubernetes fundamentals for s

📌 Senior Database Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 VIRIMA
📍 Bengaluru