Oracle Database Engineer - IN

Rackspace Technology; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology is seeking an experienced Oracle Database Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of our multi-cloud DBaaS platform hosted across Azure, AWS, and GCP. The DBRE Lead will drive automation and reliability engineering practices in a hybrid Hyderabad setup.

Ideal candidates have 3–6 years in DBA/Platform Engineering with 3+ years Oracle experience, and are comfortable with 24x7 on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Oracle Database expertise with 3+ years of hands-on experience.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud DBaaS environments (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Automation-first mindset using IaC and scripting.
• Experience in SaaS/DBaaS platforms preferred.
• Strong HA/DR and performance tuning capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain reliability, performance, and scalability of the DBaaS platform.
• Drive automation frameworks and SRE practices across cloud environments.
• Manage on-call rotations and incident response for database services.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infra, and Engineering teams to improve service levels.

Skills

Oracle Database

SRE Principles

Automation

Hybrid Cloud

24x7 On-call

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

ELK Stack

Job description

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of our multi‑cloud DBaaS platform across:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform

This role combines deep database expertise with SRE principles to build highly available, automated, and resilient database platforms. The DBRE Lead will drive operational standards, automation frameworks, and reliability engineering practices across distributed cloud environments.

What We’re Looking For

• 3‑6 years in DBA / Platform Engineering
• 3+ yrs of relevant experience in Oracle Database
• Should be ok to work 24x7 set up
• Location - Hybrid - 2 days work from office - Hyderabad
• Strong multi‑cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP – at least one)
• Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise
• Automation‑first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)
• Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred

For a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in a DBaaS support role, the following mandatory skills are typically required:

1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills

• Primary Database: Oracle
• Secondary Database: Any
• Database Backup & Recovery: Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.
• Performance Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.
• Database Security: User management, roles, access control, and auditing.

2. Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge (DBaaS)

• Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Cosmos DB, SQL Database), GCP (Cloud SQL, Firestore).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.
• Kubernetes & Containers: Running databases in containers (like Kubernetes).
• Observability Tools: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Database Migration: Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.
• Database Scaling: Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments.

3. SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering)

• Incident Management: Handling database outages, incident response, and on‑call rotations.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensuring uptime and performance targets.
• Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.

4. Soft Skills

• Communication Skills: Clear communication with stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Problem‑Solving: Ability to troubleshoot complex database issues under pressure.
• Collaboration: Working closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.

We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.