Description
Summary
As Database Administrator, you will be responsible for the architecture, planning, implementation, and maintenance of database systems including strategic database design, planning, and execution, with emphasis on Azure technologies, working with development teams to design and implement complex database layouts and strategies. In this role you will also be responsible for performance monitoring and tuning. You will also be expected to apply current technologies and techniques to improve production systems, capacity planning, data integrity, backup and recovery solutions, and database security.
To be effective you will be expected to work closely with internal teams and serve as the primary source for strategic database architecture, design, planning and implementation; regularly working with development to improve production systems, tune workloads, and implement new database layouts and strategies.




As a top candidate you will possess a well-rounded and highly technical background with emphasis on scalable design and performance in the cloud and will be self-motivated and able to handle complex tasks independently.
Scheduled shift will cover US business hours for the foreseeable future. When assigned to the US shift, you will work remotely but this is subject to change to hybrid if shift needs change.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
SDLC and Production Database Maintenance
- Software Development Life Cycle: implementation, deployment, and maintenance, including participation in monthly release rotation
- Database Security
- Database Change Management: Review scripts and perform deployments to Development, QC and Production Environments
- Create databases (with appropriate resources when applicable) and ensure proper backup retention
- Capacity Planning and monitoring
- Data modeling, logical and physical database design
- Alert Response: Determine root cause and resolution

Database Tuning
- Write performant T-SQL and tune existing T-SQL
- Review data mode

📌 Cloud Services Engineer III (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Bengaluru