As an Operations Engineer, a typical day involves overseeing the smooth functioning of production systems and services, ensuring they meet operational requirements and service agreements. This role requires continuous monitoring, managing system performance, and coordinating with various teams to maintain service reliability. The position demands proactive identification and resolution of operational issues to support uninterrupted service delivery and optimize system availability. Collaboration with stakeholders to align operational activities with business needs is a key aspect of the daily routine.

Tower Focus:

The Database SRE ensures the availability, performance, integrity, and recoverability of enterprise database platforms across relational and NoSQL technologies, on-premises and in the cloud. The role focuses on automating database provisioning, patching, backup/recovery, and performance tuning while applying SRE practices to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Tower-Specific Technical Skills:

- Relational databases (RDBMS): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL administration, tuning, and troubleshooting.

- NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, and Redis operations.

- High availability & DR: Replication, clustering, Always On / Data Guard / RAC, backup & recovery, and disaster-recovery drills.

- Performance engineering: Query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, and performance monitoring.

- Cloud & engineered systems: Managed databases (AWS RDS / Aurora, Azure SQL) and Oracle Exadata / ExaCC environments.





- Security & compliance: Database hardening, patching, access control, and audit / SOX-SOC compliance support.

- Ways of working: Change / Incident management via Service Now and SLA-driven delivery.

Automation Skills (Python & Ansible in Database SRE Context):

- Automate database provisioning, patching, and configuration using Ansible playbooks and Python scripts.

- Build Python-based tooling for backup validation, health checks, performance reporting, and automated remediation.

- Integrate database lifecycle operations into CI-CD pipelines and self-service workflows to reduce manual DBA toil.

Experience:

Required: 8 10 years of hands-on experience in Database SRE operations, engineering, and automation as described above.

Certifications (Added Advantage)

Any of the following tower-specific certifications will be considered an added advantage:

- Oracle: Oracle Certified Qualified (OCP) - Database Administration.

- Microsoft: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) / MCSA SQL Server.

- PostgreSQL / MySQL: EDB PostgreSQL or Oracle MySQL DBA certification.

- NoSQL: MongoDB Certified DBA Associate.

- Cloud: AWS Certified Database - Specialty.

Shift

- US Shift (B shift)

- RTO as per project requirement

Additional Information:

- The candidate should have minimum 7.5 years of experience in Oracle Database Administration (DBA).

- This position is based at our Pune office.

- A 15 years full time education is required."

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