Key Responsibilities

AWS Database Platform Operations

- Manage and operate Amazon RDS and Aurora database environments across development, staging, and production
- Configure and maintain Multi-AZ deployments, read replicas, replication strategies, and failover mechanisms
- Perform database patching, upgrades, maintenance scheduling, and parameter tuning
- Monitor database performance, replication lag, storage utilization, and query efficiency
- Troubleshoot SQL performance bottlenecks, deadlocks, connectivity issues, and operational failures
- Implement backup, recovery, snapshot management, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) strategies
- Conduct database restoration validation and disaster recovery drills
- Support schema migration and production deployment activities
- Perform capacity planning for compute, storage, IOPS, and throughput requirements

AWS Storage & Data Lake Operations

- Manage enterprise-scale Amazon S3 storage environments for application, analytics, and archival workloads
- Configure bucket policies, lifecycle policies, replication, versioning, and archival strategies
- Implement storage tiering and archival workflows using Glacier and Intelligent Tiering
- Monitor storage growth, access patterns, and optimize storage costs
- Configure and manage cross-region replication (CRR) and same-region replication (SRR)
- Ensure secure access management using IAM policies, bucket policies, VPC endpoints, and encryption controls
- Support operational management of data lake environments using AWS Glue, Athena, and Lake Formation

Backup, Recovery & Disaster Recovery

- Configure and manage AWS Backup policies across databases, storage, and related services
- Implement centralized backup governance and retention policies
- Monitor backup health, recovery points, and backup job success/failure
- Design and validate disaster recovery procedures aligned to defined RPO/RTO objectives
- Conduct periodic recovery and restoration testing




- Manage cross-account and cross-region backup strategies for business continuity

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

- Configure monitoring, alerting, and observability using Cloud Watch, Open Search, and related AWS services
- Develop operational dashboards and automated alerting for critical infrastructure metrics
- Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and operational stability of data platforms
- Troubleshoot production incidents, storage failures, pipeline disruptions, and service degradation
- Participate in on-call support and incident management processes
- Create operational runbooks, SOPs, and recovery procedures

Security, Governance & Compliance

- Implement encryption at rest and in transit using AWS KMS and AWS-native security controls
- Manage secrets, credentials, and database authentication mechanisms
- Enforce governance, access control, backup retention, and compliance standards
- Support audit readiness and operational compliance reporting

Automation & Cost Optimization

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows using Terraform, Cloud Formation, Lambda, or scripting tools
- Optimize database and storage costs through lifecycle management, tiering, reserved capacity, and utilization analysis
- Continuously improve operational efficiency, monitoring coverage, and platform reliability

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have AWS Services

- Amazon RDS / Aurora
- Amazon S3
- AWS Backup
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Cloud Watch
- AWS IAM
- AWS KMS

Core Technical Skills

- Solid understanding of relational database concepts, backup/recovery, replication, and high availability
- Experience with S3 lifecycle management, replication, archival, and storage optimization
- Hands-on experience in disaster recovery planning and restoration testing for databases
- Experience troubleshooting database and storage performance issues
- Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and operational observability
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Cloud Formation)
- Understanding of security best practices and governance controls in AWS

📌 AWS DBA (India)
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📍 India