We are seeking a seasoned Lead Database Administrator to take full ownership of our database ecosystem. You will drive reliability, performance, and scalability across multiple database platforms on-premises and cloud while acting as the technical authority and mentor for our infrastructure team.

Key Responsibilities

Database Administration & Operations
- Administer and maintain multiple databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis across production, staging, and development environments.
- Monitor database health, performance metrics, query execution plans, and system resources; resolve bottlenecks proactively.
- Design and enforce backup, recovery, replication, clustering, and failover strategies to guarantee high availability.
- Manage schema changes, DDL migrations, and version-controlled deployments in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Define and uphold database security standards including role-based access control, encryption, and audit logging.

Cloud Database Management
- Administer cloud-managed database services on AWS (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB),



GCP (Cloud SQL, Spanner), or Azure Database platforms.
- Architect cloud-native database solutions with a focus on scalability, resilience, and cost optimisation.
- Lead zero-downtime migrations from on-premises databases to managed cloud services.
- Continuously evaluate emerging cloud database technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate.

Performance Tuning & Capacity Planning
- Analyse slow queries, index strategies, and execution plans; implement targeted optimisations to meet SLA requirements.
- Conduct regular capacity planning and performance benchmarking across all environments.
- Collaborate with application engineers to review ORM usage and data models for performance at scale.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Mentor junior DBAs and serve as the primary technical resource for all database-related decisions.
- Establish and maintain database standards, runbooks,

📌 Lead Database Administrator (Bengaluru)
🏢 LeadSquared
📍 Bengaluru