Job Summary
Senior Database Administrator / Database Engineer (L3) with 9+ years of experience in enterprise database administration, engineering, and production support across relational and NoSQL platforms. Responsible for advanced administration, performance tuning, high availability, backup/recovery, upgrades, migrations, major incident resolution, RCA, automation, security, and operational governance of Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Amazon DynamoDB environments.
Key Responsibilities
Lead administration and operational support of Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and DynamoDB platforms. Perform advanced database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, migrations, and lifecycle management. Troubleshoot complex database performance, connectivity, locking, replication, storage, and availability issues. Perform advanced SQL/query tuning, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and database performance optimization. Design and support database High Availability, replication, backup/recovery, and Disaster Recovery solutions. Lead critical database incident resolution and perform detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Support database migration and modernization across on-premises, cloud, relational, and NoSQL environments. Administer and optimize AWS managed database services, including Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB. Manage database security including users, roles, privileges, authentication, encryption, and access controls. Support vulnerability remediation, database patching, security hardening, and compliance activities. Monitor database capacity, availability, utilization, and performance trends and recommend improvements. Develop automation for database administration, monitoring, maintenance,
and operational activities. Support database-related cloud cost and resource optimization. Coordinate with Application, Cloud, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, DevOps, and vendor teams. Provide technical guidance and escalation support to L1/L2 database teams. Maintain architecture documents, SOPs, runbooks, configuration standards, and knowledge articles.
Skill Requirements
Extensive hands-on experience in enterprise Database Administration and Engineering. Advanced expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL database administration. Strong experience with Amazon Aurora and AWS database services. Strong operational knowledge of MongoDB and DynamoDB NoSQL environments. Advanced knowledge of SQL, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning. Solid experience with database replication, High Availability, backup/recovery, and Disaster Recovery. Experience in database upgrades, migrations, modernization, and platform lifecycle management. Strong knowledge of database security, access control, encryption, and security hardening. Experience with database monitoring, capacity planning, and performance-management tools. Robust Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting knowledge. Experience with automation using Python, Shell scripting, Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent technologies. Good knowledge of AWS cloud architecture, networking, IAM, monitoring, and database connectivity. Strong experience with Major Incident, Problem, Change Management, and RCA. Strong technical leadership, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Database Specialty, or equivalent certifications preferred.
Must Have Skill
MS SQL,MySQL,Oracle DB,PostgreSQL
Good to Have Skill
Other Requirements
NA
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