Role & responsibilities

- Act as a technical SME for Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server platforms.

- Design, implement, and support database solutions for business-critical workloads across Production, Development, Test, and Disaster Recovery environments.

- Own and provide technical direction for Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, RMAN, and Enterprise Manager solutions.

- Own and provide technical direction for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, replication, log shipping, backup, recovery, and monitoring solutions.

- Deliver against database platform strategy and roadmap, including upgrades, migrations, consolidation, modernisation, and remediation of end-of-life or end-of-support platforms.

- Drive platform stability, performance, capacity, availability, and resilience, ensuring database services meet operational and business requirements.

- Lead complex performance tuning, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of major incidents and recurring problems.

- Develop and maintain robust backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities, including regular validation and failover testing.

- Identify and deliver cost optimisation opportunities across database licensing, infrastructure utilisation, consolidation, storage, and support models.

- Develop automation and standardisation using Ansible, PowerShell, Shell scripting, Python, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

- Ensure database security through patching, vulnerability remediation, privileged access controls, hardening, encryption, auditing, and compliance evidence.

- Collaborate closely with application owners, operating system teams, cloud engineering teams, architecture, security, network, storage, vendors, and wider Infrastructure & Operations teams.

- Maintain high-quality technical documentation, including platform designs, standards, build guides,



runbooks, operational procedures, capacity reports, and audit artefacts.

- Provide technical leadership for major changes and projects, including planning, risk assessment, implementation, validation, and rollback.

- Participate in the on-call rota to support critical incidents.

Preferred candidate profile

- Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise-scale Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server environments.

- Deep Oracle expertise covering RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, RMAN, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations.

- Deep SQL Server expertise covering Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup and recovery, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations.

- Proven experience supporting highly available, business-critical production database services.

- Experience leading database upgrades, migrations, consolidations, platform refreshes, and disaster recovery implementations.

- Strong knowledge of database monitoring, capacity management, alerting, incident management, and proactive problem prevention.

- Experience working in hybrid environments, integrating on-premises database platforms with Azure, OCI, AWS, or GCP services.

- Solid knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, compute, storage, networking, clustering, and virtualisation fundamentals.

- Robust troubleshooting capability across complex, multi-layered database and infrastructure environments.





- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible and scripting technologies such as PowerShell, Shell, or Python.

- Working knowledge of ITIL processes, change governance, audit controls, security compliance, and vulnerability remediation.

Technical Competencies

- Deep technical expertise and recognition as a go-to SME for Oracle and SQL Server platforms.

- Ability to independently lead technical delivery of complex database changes, migrations, upgrades, and recovery activities.

- Strong understanding of high availability, resiliency, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery design.

- Advanced database performance analysis, optimisation, capacity planning, and root cause analysis skills.

- Experience with automation, standardisation, optimisation, and platform engineering practices.

- Ability to define database standards, reference architectures, operational controls, and lifecycle roadmaps.

- Ability to contribute to design and technology decisions in partnership with architecture, security, cloud, and application teams.

Behavioural & Professional Skills

- Ownership & Accountability: Takes full responsibility for database platform stability, security, and technical outcomes.

- Technical Leadership: Influences engineering direction and mentors colleagues without requiring direct line management responsibility.

- Outcome-Driven: Focuses on measurable improvements in availability, performance, cost, security, and resilience.

- Collaboration: Works effectively across infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, application, and supplier teams.

- Communication: Clearly articulates complex database concepts, risks, options, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities for automation, optimisation, simplification, and service improvement.

📌 Specialist, IT Infrastructure (Database) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Colt Technology Services
📍 Bengaluru