Database Administrator

Role & Responsibilities:
• The role will be involved in support of highly critical production environment and will be engaged in architecture, design and deployment of systems along with a team of technically competent professionals.
• Understanding and Performing tasks related to Implementation, Design installation and configuration of all Database products.
• Coordinate and manage multiple incidents, problems and projects with different teams at the same time and conclude it with CAPA.
• Analyze all aspects of the existing infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance system reliability, availability, serviceability, scalability and observability.
• Work with Application and other peers to proactively identify and address potential system bottleneck and issues.
• Translates highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrate ownership and responsibility in all assignments.
• Proficient to identify and recommend changes/improvements to the process and infrastructure design.
• Provide L4 level support.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to research and solve complex issues independently.
• Ability to participate and contribute during crisis times, assist team members /leads/customer/Senior management, as needed.
• Show adaptability and flexibility in work to suit business requirements.

Technical Qualifications:
• Expertise in technologies, but not limited to RDS, Redshift, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Aerospike, Redis, GG, Kafka, Solace, ELK, Kibana, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc..
• Review and Assess Database performance holistically.
• Define/Recommend/Maintain/Develop/Implement and Administer database Standards, security policies, Hardening Guidelines and Architecture.
• Manage and enhance Database Activity Monitoring.
• Future Release management for database/ instance/ cluster and Impact Analysis.
• Research/Recommend Migration/Upgradation.
• Installation & Configuration of all database tools and associated products and features.
• Advance Database Performance Tuning - Instance, Database, cluster, OS Parameters, SQL Code, Procedure, Queries, caching, application flow.
• Skills to read and understand performance reports and identify issues / bottleneck.
• Recommend and Review Backup, Recovery, DR, RPO, RTO, HA and failover Strategies.
• Manage strategy towards Capacity Management (Growth) for DB tracks.
• Knowledge in Cloud Integration, migration and cloud native technologies / tools.
• Proficient in basic and advance monitoring and should possess acumen to improve DB observability.
• Extensive hands-on technical skills to cover installation, configuration, administration and advanced troubleshooting and service improvement.
• Experience of working within a Service environment and technical teams of IT experts.
• Experience of working on ITIL ticketing systems (SNOW, Remedy), understand ITIL framework and enrich CMDB.
• Experience of being able to highlight issues and implement solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Should be team player with customer First attitude.