Manager – Database SRE

LSEG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Manager – Database SRE in Bengaluru, India, responsible for leading and scaling the Database Site Reliability Engineering function. This role involves overseeing database reliability, security, and performance while mentoring a team of Senior Database SREs. Candidates should have a strong background in Oracle and SQL databases, as well as experience with cloud-native databases. The role promotes automation and applies SRE principles to enhance operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Oracle, SQL Server, and cloud databases.
• Proficient in automation tools and scripting.
• Experience with incident response and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead Database Site Reliability Engineering function ensuring reliability and security.
• Mentor and develop a team of Database SREs.
• Drive proactive capacity management and performance optimisation.

Skills

Oracle Database platforms

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL cloud databases

SRE principles

Automation and scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Bitbucket, Rundeck)

Job description

Role Overview

The Manager – Database SRE is responsible for leading and scaling the Database Site Reliability Engineering function, ensuring the reliability, security, performance, and availability of enterprise database platforms supporting critical business services. This role combines technical leadership, people management, and platform ownership, driving adoption of SRE principles, automation, and cloud‑native database practices across commercial and open‑source database technologies. The Manager sets the strategic vision for database reliability and operational excellence while partnering closely with application, cloud, security, and architecture teams. The role focuses on Oracle and SQL databases, with growing responsibility for open‑source and cloud‑native databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL platforms like Azure Cosmos DB.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Lead and Senior Database SREs, encouraging a high‑performance and innovative culture.


• Set clear goals, expectations, and career development plans for team members.


• Promote SRE standard processes, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.


• Act as a critical issue contact for sophisticated operational and organisational challenges.

Reliability, Operations & Service Ownership

• Lead availability, resilience, and reliability SLAs/SLOs for enterprise database platforms.


• Be responsible for incident response, major incident command, root cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews.


• Ensure effective on‑call coverage, shift rotations, and operational readiness.


• Drive proactive capacity management, performance optimisation, and risk reduction initiatives.


• Ensure platform operations align with business priorities and service expectations.

Database Platform Strategy & Engineering

• Define and evolve the database platform strategy, standards, and roadmaps across Oracle and SQL Server; open‑source databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL); NoSQL/cloud databases (Azure Cosmos DB and similar).


• Ensure standardised approaches for builds, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and HA/DR.


• Supervise complex performance tuning, scalability, and architectural reviews.


• Guide teams in supporting application and development initiatives with sound database design principles.

SRE, DevOps & Automation Enablement

• Champion automation‑first and reliability‑by‑design approaches for all database services.


• Supervise development of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) and configuration management for databases.


• Ensure consistent use of CI/CD pipelines for database deployments.


• Define and implement observability, monitoring, and alerting standards for database platforms.


• Encourage adoption of self‑healing, standardisation, and continuous testing practices.

Cloud, Migration & Modernisation

• Lead design and governance of database services on Microsoft Azure.


• Supervise and govern database migrations from on‑premise to Azure, including hybrid and phased approaches.


• Partner with cloud, security, and architecture teams to build secure, scalable, cloud‑native database platforms.


• Support modernization initiatives across RDBMS and NoSQL platforms.

Security, Risk & Compliance

• Partner with IT Security and Risk teams to define and implement database security policies.


• Ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and enterprise security requirements.


• Be responsible for implementation of encryption, auditing, access controls, and secrets management.


• Evaluate applications and platform usage for alignment to security and compliance standards.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

Database Technologies

• Strong expertise in Oracle Database platforms, including 11g through 23ai; RAC, Grid Infrastructure, ASM/ACFS, Data Guard; Exadata, RMAN, OEM; PL/SQL, APEX.


• Strong solid understanding of SQL Server.


• Practical experience managing and supporting PostgreSQL.


• Practical experience managing and supporting MySQL.


• Practical experience managing and supporting NoSQL / cloud databases such as Azure Cosmos DB.


• Deep understanding of HA/DR architectures, replication technologies, and data consistency models.

SRE / DevOps & Automation

• Proven experience applying SRE principles in large, sophisticated environments.


• Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Bash/KornShell, PowerShell).


• Hands‑on knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Bitbucket, Rundeck).


• Familiarity with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault).


• Exposure to container and orchestration ecosystems (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

Cloud & Platforms

• Solid experience with Microsoft Azure database services.


• Exposure to AWS database platforms is beneficial.


• Proven Linux platform knowledge (Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Solaris experience advantageous).

Additional Requirements

• Experience leading business‑critical platforms across multi‑datacentre or multi‑region environments.


• Strong collaborator management and decision‑making skills.


• Ability to prioritise work, handle risk, and communicate trade‑offs clearly to senior interested parties.


• Experience in finance or banking environments is highly advantageous.

Optional / Nice‑to‑Have Skills

• Experience with Delphix.


• Knowledge of distributed systems, data warehousing, and transaction management.


• Experience with database migration and assessment tools.

Behavioural & Leadership Skills

• Strong influencing and leadership presence.


• Phenomenal communication skills across technical and executive audiences.


• Strategic demeanor with a pragmatic, delivery‑focused approach.


• Ability to balance hands‑on technical depth with people and platform leadership.


• Collaborative and inclusive team leader.


• Dedication to coaching, mentoring, and sharing knowledge.


• Continuous improvement approach with high ownership.

Career Stage

Manager

Equal‑Opportunity Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.