JOB TITLE: Lead Database SRE
DEPARTMENT: Infrastructure Platform Engineering
REPORTING TO: Senior Manager – Database SRE

Role Overview

The Lead Database SRE is responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and automation of enterprise database platforms supporting critical business applications. This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE and DevOps principles to ensure highly available, performant, and resilient database services.
The role provides both production and development support for database platforms, with robust ownership of operational excellence, automation, incident response, performance engineering, and cloud database operations. The Lead Database SRE acts as a technical authority, customer concern point, and catalyst in modernising database operations through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.
This position has a proven focus on Oracle and SQL databases hosted on Microsoft Azure, including the migration of on prem workloads to cloud-native and hybrid architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability, Operations & Support




Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of database platforms supporting business critical applications.
Act as a point of escalation for sophisticated database production incidents and service disruptions.
Participate in on-call rotations and shift cover, including non-standard tasks when required.
Investigate and resolve incidents using SRE practices such as root cause analysis, error budgets, and post-incident reviews.
Monitor database health, capacity, and performance, ensuring proactive issue prevention.
Database Engineering & Administration
Develop, implement, and maintain database build standards, including security, patching, backup, and HA/DR.
Perform database performance tuning, diagnostics, and optimization using tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis.
Define and document backup, restore, upgrade, and disaster recovery procedures.
Support database co

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