The opportunity

At EY, our Consulting practice brings together strategy, technology, and operations to deliver real-world, value-driven outcomes for our clients. As part of our database and data platform team, you will work with global clients to design, modernize, and optimize mission-critical database environments. Leveraging EY’s integrated service offerings and innovative technology ecosystems, you will help organizations accelerate their cloud transformation and build resilient, future-ready data platforms.

Your key responsibilities

- Engage with clients to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable database infrastructure solutions
- Provide advisory on database strategy, modernization, and cloud adoption
- Design, implement, and manage enterprise database platforms across Oracle, SQL Server, and other database technologies like NoSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, etc.
- Perform installation, upgrades, patching, migration, and performance tuning
- Ensure high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery (DR), and security of database environments
- Configure and manage database-level DR solutions such as replication, log shipping, clustering, Always-On, Data Guard, etc.
- Participating in DR planning, readiness validation, and periodic DR drills in collaboration with infra teams
- Develop and maintain DR plans, recovery runbooks, recovery procedures, and supporting documentation.
- Support cloud migration and transformation initiatives (IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS) including DR design considerations
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and cloud teams to deliver integrated solutions
- Troubleshot complex database and infrastructure issues including failover and recovery scenarios
- Develop reusable assets, accelerators, and best practices including HA/DR frameworks for consulting engagements




- Support proposal development, solutioning, and client presentations

Requirements

- We’re looking for people with functional knowledge and diversified background in the following areas:
- 8–11 years of experience in database administration and engineering roles
- Strong hands-on expertise in at least two database platforms such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server
- Strong understanding of database high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) concepts and implementations
- Practical experience in database failover, backup/recovery, and DR technologies (, Data Guard, Always-On, replication)
- Exposure to enterprise DR/BCP concepts, with participation in DR drills or failover testing preferred
- Experience with additional databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or cloud-native databases
- Exposure to infrastructure components including OS (Linux/Windows), virtualization, storage, and compute
- Hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including DR-aware architectures
- Knowledge of automation/scripting (Shell, Power Shell, Python)
- Understanding of Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines is preferred
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to clients
- Experience working in consulting or client-facing environments is preferred

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. You will gain exposure to large-scale transformation programs, cutting-edge database and cloud technologies, and global clients. We offer a collaborative and inclusive culture, continuous learning opportunities, and a platform to build a solid consulting career while deepening your technical expertise.

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