About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Database Administrator to manage and support mission-critical database environments.
You'll own HA/DR, performance, security, and automation across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS RDS.
Key Responsibilities
Database Administration & Operations
- Manage enterprise Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB databases supporting transport systems and banking applications
- Perform database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and production deployments
- Support 24x7 production operations and SLA-driven incident management
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Administer SQL Server Always on Availability Groups, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring
- Implement and test HA/DR solutions including Oracle replication technologies
- Develop backup/recovery strategies, perform DR drills, validate business continuity procedures
- Performance & Monitoring, Monitor database health, storage growth, performance bottlenecks, and system availability
- Troubleshoot database incidents, connectivity issues, and application-related performance problems
- Perform query optimization, execution plan analysis, and capacity planning
- Security & Compliance Implement database security hardening, access management, auditing, and compliance controls
- Support vulnerability remediation and infrastructure modernization activities
- Automation & Cloud Automate database maintenance and monitoring using PowerShell, Shell scripting, and T-SQL
- Support AWS RDS administration, monitoring, and backup management
- Coordinate with infrastructure, middleware, and application teams for releases/deployments
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years as DBA managing SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL in production
- Hands-on with Always On AG, Failover Clustering, Log Shipping, Oracle Data Guard/Replication
- Strong backup/recovery, DR testing, and business continuity experience
- Performance tuning, query optimization, execution plan analysis Scripting: PowerShell, Shell, T-SQL for automation AWS RDS administration and monitoring24x7 on-call support experience with strict SLAs
- Knowledge of database security, auditing, compliance controls
Good to Have
- Experience in banking/financial services environment
- MongoDB administration
- Infrastructure modernization and patch/vulnerability management
