Description

Infosys – Couchbase Database Administrator – Managed Infrastructure Services

Infosys is a global leader in technology services and consulting. We enable clients worldwide to transform their businesses through innovative, scalable, and resilient technology solutions. Our managed infrastructure services support high-volume, mission-critical database platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Wanted: Global Innovators to Help Us Build Tomorrow’s Enterprise In the role of Couchbase Database Administrator, you will administer, secure, monitor, and optimize enterprise Couchbase environments supporting business-critical applications and digital services.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of Couchbase Server and, where applicable, Couchbase Capella environments. The role focuses on platform availability, scalability, performance, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, security, automation, incident resolution, and operational governance within an ITIL-driven delivery model.

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Qualifications

Basic

- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution
- 8–12 years of database administration experience, including substantial hands-on experience supporting Couchbase Server in enterprise production environments
- Robust understanding of NoSQL databases, distributed systems, JSON document models, Linux administration, and high-availability architecture

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Preferred

Couchbase Administration Skills

- Install, configure, administer, patch, upgrade, and maintain multi-node Couchbase clusters across development, test, staging, and production environments
- Manage Couchbase Data, Query, Index, Search, Analytics, and Eventing services based on workload requirements
- Administer buckets, scopes, collections, nodes, service quotas, replicas, compaction settings, and cluster rebalance activities
- Plan and execute node addition, removal, failover, recovery, cluster expansion, and capacity changes with minimal service disruption
- Support Couchbase Server on Linux and, where applicable, Couchbase Capella or Couchbase deployments on cloud and Kubernetes platforms

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Performance, Query, and Indexing

- Monitor cluster health, node utilization, disk and memory consumption, latency, throughput, rebalance status, replication queues, and service-specific metrics
- Tune memory quotas, vBuckets, indexes, compaction, query services, and workload placement for performance and stability
- Create, review,



and optimize SQL++ queries, execution plans, Global Secondary Indexes, and index partitioning strategies
- Troubleshoot slow queries, indexing failures, hot nodes, skew, timeouts, out-of-memory conditions, and application connectivity issues
- Perform capacity planning, growth forecasting, workload analysis, and performance benchmarking for high-volume environments

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High Availability, Backup, and Disaster Recovery

- Design and maintain high-availability configurations using replicas, failover, rebalance, and resilient cluster topology
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Cross Data Center Replication for disaster recovery and geographically distributed workloads
- Plan and execute full and incremental backups, restores, retention policies, archive management, and periodic recovery validation
- Develop and test disaster recovery procedures, including failover and failback runbooks, recovery objectives, and operational readiness
- Participate in business continuity exercises and resolve replication lag, conflicts, connectivity, and recovery-related issues

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Security and Compliance

- Implement role-based access control, least-privilege administration, service accounts, password policies, and periodic access reviews
- Manage TLS certificates and encryption in transit and at rest in accordance with enterprise security standards
- Configure auditing, logging, network controls, and secure connectivity between applications, clusters, and administrative tools
- Support vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance evidence, patch governance, and audit requests

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Automation, Monitoring, and Operations

- Automate routine administration, health checks, deployments, backup validation, and reporting using Shell, Python, REST APIs, or similar technologies
- Use Couchbase command-line utilities and management APIs for cluster operations, diagnostics, backup, and recovery
- Integrate metrics and alerts with enterprise monitoring platforms; experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or comparable tools is preferred




- Support Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, or Couchbase Autonomous Operator
- Perform incident, problem, change, release, service-request, and root-cause-analysis activities in line with ITIL processes

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Collaboration and Communication

- Work closely with application, cloud, DevOps, network, storage, security, and architecture teams to support reliable production services
- Advise development teams on document design, bucket, scope, and collection architecture, indexing, connection management, and efficient query patterns
- Lead technical troubleshooting during critical incidents and communicate impact, recovery actions, risks, and preventive measures to stakeholders
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures, runbooks, architecture documents, operational checklists, known-error records, and knowledge articles
- Provide technical guidance, peer reviews, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to operations team members

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Nice to Have

- Experience with Couchbase Capella, cloud migration, hybrid-cloud deployment, or platform modernization
- Knowledge of Couchbase Mobile, Sync Gateway, full-text search, Analytics, Eventing, or data integration patterns
- Experience migrating from relational or other NoSQL platforms to Couchbase
- Familiarity with Java or other Couchbase SDKs, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices
- Couchbase or relevant cloud and database certifications

Additional Information The role may require working in a 24x7 support model, including rotational shifts, scheduled maintenance, and on-call support for mission-critical production environments. The successful candidate should be comfortable coordinating with global teams and managing high-severity incidents under defined service-level commitments.

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Enable Skills-Based Hiring No ECMS REQ IDAdditional Details

- ECMS REQ ID : 580063
- Project Location 1 : TN | CHENNAI
- Project Location 2 : (No Value)
- Project Location 3 : (No Value)
- Project Location 4 : (No Value)
- Delivery SPOC : Atin_Roy
- Relevant Experience : 6-8 years
- Mandatory skills : Couchbase
- Desired skills : Couchbase
- Domain (Industry) : Telecom
- BGC (Before onboarding / After onboarding) : PreOB
- Total Experience (Ex. 5-7 Years) : 8-12 years
- BGC Details : NA
- BGC Vendor : NA
- Mode of Interview : Face to Face
- WFO / WFH / Hybrid : Hybrid
- Please enter shift timings : 8AM-5PM CET (11.30 AM-8.30 PM IST)
- Shift Timings : Others

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