Job Title: Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) – MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle

Location: Remote

Work Mode: Fully Remote

Experience: 5+ years

Start Date: Immediate

Job Summary:

Owision is seeking an experienced Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) to own the reliability, performance, scalability, and automation of our MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle database fleet across on-premises and multi-cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure). Operating at the intersection of DBA, SRE, and Platform Engineering, you will treat databases as code, eliminate operational toil, and build self-healing, highly available, and observable data platforms that power mission-critical services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define, monitor, and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs for database availability, latency, durability, and error budgets across all production tiers.
- Architect, maintain, and continuously validate High Availability (HA) configurations, clustering, replication topologies, and automated failover mechanisms.
- Lead database incident management, participate in on-call rotations, and conduct blameless Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) to implement permanent preventive engineering solutions.
- Design, automate, and regularly test Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity plans to guarantee strict RPO and RTO targets.
- Treat databases as code by automating provisioning, scaling, patching, backups, and zero-downtime schema migrations using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Build and maintain internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) self-service tools and CI/CD automation pipelines for engineering teams.
- Conduct deep query optimization, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and engine-level tuning (InnoDB, PostgreSQL autovacuum, Oracle AWR/ASH).




- Build end-to-end monitoring, alerting, and telemetry dashboards using PMM, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, and Zabbix.
- Enforce database security by design, including encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, auditing, compliance, and data governance policies.

Required Qualifications:

- 4–6+ years of hands-on experience as a DBRE, SRE, or Systems DBA managing large-scale, production database environments.
- Strong SRE mindset with practical experience managing SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident response workflows, and post-mortem practices.
- Deep production expertise in MySQL and PostgreSQL internals, alongside solid working knowledge of Oracle Core (RMAN, Data Guard, OEM, RAC basics).
- Proven hands-on experience with cloud-native database services across AWS (RDS/Aurora), OCI, or Azure Database.
- Solid scripting proficiency in Python and Bash, combined with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform and Ansible.
- Extensive experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools (Percona XtraBackup, pgBackRest, RMAN) and replication mechanisms (async, semi-sync, logical).
- Advanced Linux/Unix systems administration skills, OS-level performance tuning, and deep SQL execution plan diagnosis.
- Proven track record of self-directed technical ownership and disciplined incident handling in a fully remote environment.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience deploying and orchestrating stateful database workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS R12.x) database administration, patching, cloning, and upgrades.
- Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server (Always On Availability Groups) or NoSQL data platforms (MongoDB, Redis).

📌 Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) (India)
🏢 Owision
📍 India