Cloud DBA Lead

Preferred Experience

• Ideal candidate has been supporting traditional server based relational databases (Postgresql, RedisDB and MongoDB) for over 10+ years out of which last 6+ years in public cloud environments (GCP).
• Hands‑on experience with PostgreSQL/MongoDB, including installation, configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing PostgreSQL databases on AZURE, GCP and AWS RDS.
• Experience with features such as automated backups, maintenance and scaling – PostgreSQL.
• Ability to analyze and optimize complex SQL queries for performance improvement.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring tools for PostgreSQL on GCP.
• Experience with configuring alerts based on performance metrics.
• Experience in implementing and testing backup and recovery strategies for PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS/AZURE SQL/GCP Cloud SQL.
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery plans for PostgreSQL databases on AWS RDS/AZURE SQL/GCP Cloud SQL.
• Good understanding of database security principles and best practices.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience in optimizing database configurations for better performance.
• Able to provide 24*7 shift hours support at L3 level.
• Experience in updating KB articles, Problem Management articles and SOPs/runbooks.
• Passion for delivering timely and outstanding customer service.
• Great written and oral communication skills with internal and external customers.
• Strong ITIL foundation experience.
• Ability to work independently or without direct supervision.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross‑training to other peers and team members.
• Work directly with end customer, business stakeholders and technical resources.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall operational experience.
• 6+ years of GCP experience as a cloud DBA (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RedisDB).
• 6+ years of experience working in diverse cloud support database environments in a 24*7 production support model.
• Query fine tuning – MongoDB.
• Shell scripts for monitoring like ‘slow queries’, replication lag, node failures, disk usage, etc.
• Backup and restores (backs should be automated with shell scripts/Ops Manager).
• Database health check (complete review of database slow queries, fragmentation, index usage, etc).
• Upgrades (Java version, Mongo version, etc).
• Maintenance (data centre outages, etc).
• Architecture design per application requirement.
• Writing best‑practice documents for sharding, replication for dev/app teams.
• Log rotation/maintenance (mongos, mongodb, config, etc).
• Segregation of duties – user management; designing user roles and responsibilities.
• Designing DR (disaster recovery)/COB (continuity of business) plans as applicable.
• Database profiling, locks, memory usage, number of connections, page fault, etc.
• Export and import of data to and from MongoDB, runtime configuration of MongoDB.
• Data management in MongoDB capped collections; expired data from TTL.
• Monitoring of various issues related with database.
• Monitoring at server, database, collection level and various monitoring tools related to MongoDB.
• Database software installation and configuration per client defined standards.
• Database migrations and updates.
• Capacity management – MongoDB.
• Hands‑on experience in server performance tuning and recommendations.
• High‑availability solutions and recommendations.
• Hands‑on experience in root‑cause analysis for business‑impacting issues.
• Experience with SQL, SQL Developer, TOAD, Pgadmin, MongoDB Atlas.
• Experience with python/powershell scripting – preferred.
• Secondary skill in MySQL/oracle – preferred.
• Installation, configuration and upgrading of PostgreSQL server software and related products.
• Secondary skill – DB2 is a plus.

Preferred Certifications

• Azure Fundamentals (AZ‑900) – REQUIRED.
• Google Cloud Associate Engineer – REQUIRED.
• Azure Database Certification (DP‑300) – preferred.
• AWS Certified Database Specialty – preferred.
• PostgreSQL certification – a plus.
• MongoDB certification – a plus.
• B.Tech/BE/MCA in Information Technology degree or equivalent experience.

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