About the Role
We are seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to join our team. In this critical role, you will bridge the gap between traditional database administration and site reliability engineering. You will be responsible for the architecture, deployment, performance tuning, and extreme high availability of our database infrastructure—treating operational excellence as a core feature of the system.
You will manage a hybrid setting consisting of self-hosted Microsoft SQL Server instances on
Windows/EC2 and fully managed AWS services (RDS and Aurora). We are looking for an engineer who combines deep database knowledge with strong infrastructure automation skills (IaC) to drive reliability, security, and efficiency across our cloud networking and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities
Database Administration & Performance Optimization
Administer self-hosted Microsoft SQL Server Always On Clusters.
Execute advanced SQL concepts, including server-level DDL/DML operations, query performance
tuning, and proactive maintenance to prevent outages.




High Availability & Disaster Recovery (HA/DR)
Design, plan, and execute robust HA/DR strategies across RDS, Aurora, and self-hosted
environments.
Manage switchovers, failovers, and disaster recovery rebuilds with minimal recovery time
objectives (RTO/RPO).
Backup & Recovery
Implement and oversee bulletproof backup/recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and
business continuity.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Develop and maintain automation scripts utilizing PowerShell and Python.
Write, review, and maintain Terraform scripts for cloud infrastructure provisioning (EC2, VPC, S3,
etc.).
Security & Access Management
Implement and manage database authentication and access controls utilizing Active Directory
(AD) and AWS IAM.
Observability & Documentation
Author and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs), and operational runbooks. Establish SLOs/SLIs for database perf

📌 Database Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Dhruv Technology Solutions
📍 Bengaluru