About Position

As a Senior Database Administrator , you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our most critical data storage and intelligence platforms. You will build, maintain, and scale production services and server farms across multiple global data centers and public cloud providers. You will contribute to the product architecture to improve our services' performance, operability, scalability, service reliability, capacity, and observability. We are looking for passion, curiosity, attention to details, taking pride in one's work, taking ownership, and having ideas/opinions. If you’re the enthusiastic team player who builds and tunes the highest performing databases out there, remains calm in a crisis, collaborates well, and codes automation.

Role: Senior Database Administrator
Location: Pune
Experience: 12+ Years
Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

Design, administer, and maintain NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
Manage and support SQL databases including MySQL,



MariaDB, and Percona environments.
Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and availability, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Administer and maintain Kafka messaging infrastructure to support reliable data streaming and integration.
Automate database and system administration tasks using scripting languages and automation frameworks.
Implement and manage configuration management solutions such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef.
Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive resolution of database-related incidents.
Configure and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure operational excellence.
Execute database upgrades, patches, backups, recovery procedures, and performance tuning activities.
Follow and contribute to operational best practices, including change management, incident management, and capacity planning.
Support database platforms acr

📌 Senior Database Administrator (Pune)
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Pune