Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Must Have:

8+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, and production support.

Hands-on expertise in Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, including high availability, replication,

clustering, patching, and upgrades.

Strong experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, backup,

PITR, and disaster recovery.

Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and

support on-call operations.

Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python, Shell, or equivalent

tools.

Good To Have

Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services.

Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as

Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch.

Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and

DR test reports.

Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications.

Responsibility / Expectation

Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production

environments.

Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning.

Monitor database health, replication, storage, connections, locks, and resource consumption, and

resolve issues proactively.

Lead database incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions.

Automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and

operational reporting.

Partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and

non-functional requirements.

Maintain database documentation, runbooks, DR evidence, and operational status updates for

stakeholders.

Design and manage robust backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover and DR strategies to

guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets