Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited

About The Client

Availity is the place where healthcare finds the answers needed to shift focus back to patient care. We work to solve communication challenges in healthcare by creating a richer, more transparent exchange of information among health plans, providers, and technology partners. As the nation’s largest health information network, Availity facilitates billions of clinical, administrative, and financial transactions annually.

Our suite of dynamic products, built on a powerful, intelligent platform, enables real-time collaboration for success in a competitive, value-based care environment.

About The Job:

- Availity is transitioning from an Oracle-centric, physical data centre model to a modern AWS ecosystem with a “follow-the-sun” support strategy across Availity US and Availity India.
- This role demands cloud-native database expertise, automation skills, and strong operational support capabilities to ensure high availability, performance, and security for mission-critical healthcare data.

Essential Job Functions:

- Database Operations: Manage AWS RDS instances (Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, Oracle), DocumentDB, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache at scale.
- Reliability & Recovery: Implement and maintain robust backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Performance Optimization: Tune queries, optimise indexing, and troubleshoot complex performance issues.
- Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- CI/CD Integration: Embed database operations into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar).

- Security & Compliance: Enforce IAM roles, encryption, audit logging, and compliance with regulatory standards (HIPAA, GDPR).
- Global Collaboration: Participate in follow-the-sun handoff processes for 24/7 coverage and work closely with US counterparts.
- Documentation:



Create and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge-sharing artefacts.

- Incident Management: Lead root cause analysis and resolution for critical incidents in a 24/7 environment.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate new AWS features and database technologies to drive innovation.

Qualifications:

Experience:

- 5+ years in database administration; 3+ years in AWS database services.
- Hands-on experience with AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and ElastiCache.

Technical Skills:
- Strong scripting skills (Python preferred; Bash/PowerShell acceptable).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerised deployments.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools (CloudWatch, NewRelic, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Expertise in backup/recovery, disaster recovery planning, and high availability.
- Certifications: AWS Database Specialty or Solutions Architect certification preferred.
- Communication: Excellent collaboration skills for cross-time-zone team.

You will set yourself apart:
- Experience with multi-region architectures and global failover strategies.
- Hands-on work with serverless databases (Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB Streams).
- Knowledge of observability practices (logs, metrics, tracing).
- Familiarity with ITIL processes or similar frameworks for change and incident management.
- Proven ability in incident management and root cause analysis in a 24/7 setting.
- Skills in AWS cost optimisation and capacity planning for large-scale workloads.
- Advanced understanding of data encryption at rest and in transit.




- Knowledge of healthcare compliance standards (HIPAA, GDPR).
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and enforce best practices.
- Solid problem-solving and decision-making under pressure.
- Contribution to automation and DevOps culture beyond day-to-day operations.
- Experience working with distributed teams and strong documentation habits.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.

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Experience Level Bonus Referral: 0-2 years INR 5,000 2-6 years INR 7,500 6+ years INR 10,000

About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

📌 Database support engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 VARITE
📍 Bengaluru