Database Administrator

Echt Tech Consultancy; New Delhi, Dankaur; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Echt Tech Consultancy is seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join our IT team in the Delhi NCR area. The role requires 8+ years of hands-on database administration experience across production, staging, and development environments.

You will be responsible for performance tuning, backup/recovery, high availability, and ensuring data security. Collaboration with DevOps, security, and project teams is essential to support enterprise applications and deployments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in database administration.
• Experience with backup, recovery, high availability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and components.
• Manage production, staging, development, and disaster-recovery environments.
• Monitor health, availability, capacity, performance, and resource utilization.

Skills

SQL Server

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux/Unix

Windows Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Job Description Database Administrator (DBA)

• Position: Database Administrator (DBA)
• 8+ Years Experience
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Work Location: Greater Noida / Delhi NCR
• Department: IT / Infrastructure / Database Administration
• IT Manager / Project Manager
• Reporting To

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator with 8+ years of hands-on experience in database
administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, security, and troubleshooting. The
candidate will be responsible for maintaining reliable, secure, highly available, and high-performing database
environments supporting enterprise and mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and related database components.
• Administer and manage production, staging, development, and disaster-recovery database environments.
• Monitor database health, availability, capacity, performance, and resource utilization.
• Perform SQL query optimization, indexing, execution-plan analysis, and database performance tuning.
• Design, implement, and regularly test backup, restore, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and replication solutions such as clustering, mirroring, Always On, Data Guard, or equivalent technologies.
• Identify and resolve database incidents, performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, locking/blocking, deadlocks, and data integrity problems.
• Manage database users, roles, privileges, authentication, access controls, and security policies.
• Perform database migration, consolidation, upgrade, and version-integration activities.
• Work closely with application developers, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and project teams to support application releases and deployments.
• Develop and maintain database standards, SOPs, operational documentation, monitoring dashboards, and recovery runbooks.
• Participate in capacity planning, infrastructure planning, change management, and production support activities.
• Automate routine DBA activities using scripting and database utilities wherever practical.
• Support audits, compliance requirements, vulnerability remediation, and database security reviews.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior database administrators and support teams.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major RDBMS such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, indexing, and execution-plan analysis.
• Strong knowledge of database architecture, normalization, transactions, locking, concurrency, and data integrity.
• Hands-on experience with backup and recovery, point-in-time recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience with high availability, replication, clustering, and failover concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning capabilities.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and/or Windows Server environments.
• Knowledge of database monitoring and administration tools.
• Experience with scripting/automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or equivalent is preferred.
• Understanding of cloud database services such as AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL/Managed Instance, or Google Cloud database services is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant DBA certification such as Microsoft, Oracle, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications and 247 production environments.
• Experience in government, PSU, banking, healthcare, or other mission-critical environments is an advantage.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent incident management and troubleshooting ability.
• Ability to work under pressure in production environments.
• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• Good documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Ability to independently manage database operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Performance Expectations

• Maintain high database availability and reliability.
• Ensure timely backup verification and recovery readiness.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance and capacity issues.
• Minimize production incidents and database-related downtime.
• Maintain security, access control, documentation, and operational compliance.