DBA – Database Administrator

MariaDB – Cluster Admin

Location

Openings

Work Mode

Hyderabad

DBA – 5+ Yrs

Sr. DBA – 8+ Yrs

Work from Office (5 days/week)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced DBA / Senior DBA to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining high-availability database systems, with a strong focus on MariaDB environments, particularly MariaDB with Galera Cluster.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in database architecture, replication, clustering, performance tuning, and high-availability setups, along with hands-on experience in developing complex database applications, triggers, and stored procedures.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain databases and database applications using MariaDB
- Deploy, manage, and maintain MariaDB with Galera Cluster to ensure high availability and fault tolerance
- Monitor and optimize MariaDB, ProxySQL, and Galera Cluster performance, including node synchronization and overall cluster health
- Configure and manage database replication, clustering, and failover mechanisms
- Develop efficient database triggers and stored procedures
- Design and maintain database schemas that effectively support business processes
- Troubleshoot and resolve database performance issues, cluster inconsistencies, and replication failures
- Ensure data integrity, security, and high availability of production databases
- Implement backups based on GFS strategy, along with disaster recovery and database recovery processes
- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies,



and server configuration
- Participate in code reviews and provide technical guidance to team members
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable database solutions

Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5–8+ years of experience in MariaDB/MySQL database administration
- Hands-on experience managing MariaDB with Galera Cluster in production environments
- Strong understanding of database clustering, replication, and high-availability architectures
- Experience in query optimization, performance tuning, and database troubleshooting
- Strong expertise in writing database triggers and stored procedures
- Experience managing large-scale databases and mission-critical systems
- Familiarity with backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery strategies
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Percona XtraDB Cluster or similar clustering technologies
- Experience with cloud database platforms (AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure, etc.)




- Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Experience with database monitoring tools (Percona Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Experience managing environments with 100+ MariaDB database instances
- Experience with ETL pipelines and data warehousing solutions
- Expertise in OS-level and database performance tuning and optimization
- Expertise in MySQL replication setup, including Group Replication, GTID, and troubleshooting
- Strong experience in setting up high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architectures
- Experience conducting DR drills and validation exercises
- Experience in data migration activities
- Good-to-have knowledge across multiple database domains: MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB; Graph databases (Neptune, OrientDB, etc.); Vector databases (FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone, Weaviate, etc.); PrestoDB, Apache Pinot, RocksDB
- Working knowledge of Linux file systems and LVM
- Familiarity with cloud environments and virtualization technologies
- Expertise in automating routine tasks using Shell / Perl scripting
- Ability to work under pressure while managing multiple tasks and priorities
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently
- Strong attention to detail with a focus on delivering high-quality results
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences
- Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and problem-solving capabilities

Additional Skills (Good to Have)

- Storage systems
- Shell scripting
- Perl scripting
- MySQL Workbench

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