About the Role:

We are seeking a Database Administrator to partner closely with our engineering and cloud infrastructure teams. In this role, you’ll drive performance optimization and operational excellence across Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle environments, tuning SQL and improving data access patterns in the context of our application architecture and business logic.

You should be comfortable working in up-to-date DevOps and cloud environments using Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform. You will use Datadog for observability, performance monitoring, and alerting across database and application layers.

Key Responsibilities:

Core Database Administration

- Health & monitoring: Monitor database health, performance, and capacity across Azure managed PostgreSQL and Oracle using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.
- Data protection: Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
- Governance: Administer access controls and user provisioning in alignment with security and financial compliance requirements.

Application Integration & SQL Optimization

- Application-centric tuning: Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application’s data access layer, using Datadog APM traces to pinpoint slow or ineSicient queries in production traSic.
- Code-level analysis: Read and understand Java code to trace data access patterns and ensure tuning aligns with how the application interacts with the database.
- Proactive design partnership: Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape eSicient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies before features ship.
- Root-cause remediation:



Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring, then work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments that preserve application logic.
- Performance baselines: Establish and track performance baselines for business-critical queries and implement anomaly detection to prevent regression as new features are released.

Qualifications (Required):

- 5+ years of experience supporting relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
- Ability to read and understand Java application code to trace data access patterns.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to partner with engineering and infrastructure teams.
- Hands-on administration of Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including configuration, upgrades, and parameter tuning.
- Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery (replication, failover, RPO/RTO), including regular testing.
- Strong performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis (EXPLAIN), indexing strategy, query rewrites, and diagnosing locking/contention.
- Experience implementing database security best practices, including encryption, secrets management, role-based access, and audit logging.
- Ability to automate DBA workflows using Python, Bash, or PowerShell (maintenance, backup verification, provisioning, alerting).
- Comfort participating in an on-call rotation, leading incident triage, and writing post incident reviews with corrective and preventive actions.

Nice to have:

- Hands-on administration of Oracle Database including installation, configuration, upgrades, parameter tuning, and backups using RMAN.
- Experience with distributed databases, such as CockroachDB.
- Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this role at this time.

📌 Database Administrator (India)
🏢 Amazon
📍 India