Senior Database Administrator

Job description

## ## Job Description: **Job Title** ***–*** **Senior Database Administrator** **The Purpose of This Role** Associate will be part of **Data Operations COE** group within **Enterprise Data & AI** Division that primarily provides **DBA support** for multiple RDBMS like Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, DB2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, RDS & Ec2 on AWS. In addition, this team is also responsible for **Data Lake Operations** on Cloud that supports Nifi (ELT Tool), Collibra Data Governance, Alation Data Catalogue Enterprise Tools & **Platform Engineering** (Informatica, Middleware), **Data Masking** (TDM) & **Enterprise Snowflake Platform** Support **The Value You Deliver** Work closely with CST/ETGS BU’s in supporting their databases, ensuring stability, performance & help migrate them to public cloud as part of the organization data strategy by partnering with Product teams & Architects ***Core duties include:*** - Partner closely with product development teams from the design phase through the full Agile development lifecycle, including future enhancements and production releases. - Actively participate in Agile squad ceremonies, including sprint planning, to understand product priorities, roadmaps, and delivery timelines. - Lead and support application stress and load testing, proactively identifying and resolving database performance bottlenecks (OLTP and batch) to ensure SLA compliance before production releases. - Proactively recommend and evangelize new database features and capabilities that can be leveraged by product teams for future enhancements. - Support database migrations and version upgrades as part of Technology Lifecycle Management, ensuring compliance with organizational and audit standards. - Perform database capacity planning and growth analysis, providing insights on future storage, compute, and hardware requirements based on data growth trends and performance metrics. - Identify aging and high-volume data and design, develop, and implement data archiving, purging, and partitioning strategies to efficiently manage database growth. - Manage and execute database and schema refreshes for lower (non-production) environments. - Define and implement backup, recovery, and restore strategies aligned with application RTO/RPO requirements. - Address and remediate database security audit findings, ensuring adherence to security, compliance, and governance standards. - Manage database users, access controls, roles, and privileges in line with least-privilege and compliance principles. - Troubleshoot and resolve production database and SQL performance issues, ensuring high availability and system stability. - Provide 12x7 on-call support, collaborate with vendors on database-related issues and bugs, and drive issues to resolution. - Plan, schedule, and coordinate database maintenance activities with application and support teams to minimize operational impact. **The Skills that are Key to this role** **Technical / Behavioral** - Core Oracle DBA skills (Oracle 12c/19c), RAC & Data guard - Strong in Oracle Internals & DBA\\_ Dictionary views - Oracle DB/SQL Performance Tuning & relevant tools (SQLTRACE, TKPROF, AWR, ADDM, SQL PROFILE, SQL BASELINES) - Good understanding on Access Methods, Joins, different Indexes & its usage, Index scans, interpreting EXECUTION PLANS, Table/Index Statistics, Histograms, wait events etc - Working experience on Oracle Golden Gate for Data Replication, PostgresDB, Azure SQL MI & managing RDS/Databases on AWS - Strong on PL/SQL Programming - Working experience on Shell scripting for Automation - Problem solving and good analytical skills - Communication, teamwork and negotiation skills - Ability to work in tight deadlines under pressure - Flexible and adaptable to changing business/technology requirements - A sense of ownership that drives quality in everything you do - A forward-looking attitude that keeps you aware of the latest in database & cloud technology space **The Skills those are good to have for this role** - Knowledge of distributed databases like Yugabyte, Cockroach DB, etc - Experience on Snowflake Cloud Datawarehouse DB - Basic knowledge BI tools Tableau/PowerBI for reporting **How Your Work Impacts the Organization** Enabling stable, high‑performing database environments while delivering an exceptional customer experience **The Expertise we’re looking for** - 5 to 9 years of DBA (IT) experience - 2 + years of experience on Oracle DB/SQL Performance Tuning - 1 to 2 years’ experience on managing other databases like MS SQL Server, PostgresDB, Snowflake & cloud - Experience Automation skills using Shell scripting, Python etc - Bachelor’s degree in any technology related field (e.g, Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, etc.) required. - Oracle Certification or other RDBMS certifications - AWS/Azure/OCI cloud Certified **Location:** Bangalore – EGL/Manyata **Shift timings**: 11 AM to 8 PM   ## ## Certifications: ## ## Category: ## Information Technology