Job Description
About the Role:
n

nWe 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.
n

nYou should be comfortable working in contemporary 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.
n

nKey Responsibilities:
n

nCore Database Administration
n

n
- n
- Health & monitoring: Monitor database health, performance, and capacity across Azure managed PostgreSQL and Oracle using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.n
- Data protection: Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.n
- Governance:



Administer access controls and user provisioning in alignment with security and financial compliance requirements.n

n

nApplication Integration & SQL Optimization
n

n
- n
- 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.n
- 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.n
- 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.n
- Root-cause remediation: Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring, then work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments that p

📌 Database Administrator (Narela)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Narela