Oracle Lead Database SRE

LSEG; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

LSEG in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Lead Database SRE to drive reliability, security, and automation for Oracle and SQL databases hosted on Microsoft Azure. You will own incident response, performance tuning, and cloud migration strategies, while promoting IaC and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities cover database engineering, automation, and cross-functional collaboration with security and architecture teams to build scalable, secure database environments.

Qualifications

• Automation and scripting using Python, Bash/KornShell, PowerShell.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Bitbucket, Rundeck).
• Familiarity with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault).
• Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

Responsibilities

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of database platforms supporting business critical applications.
• Act as escalation point for sophisticated database production incidents and service disruptions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and shift cover, including non-standard tasks when required.
• Investigate incidents using SRE practices: root cause analysis, error budgets, post-incident reviews.
• Monitor database health, capacity, and performance; drive proactive issue prevention.
• Develop and maintain database build standards including security, patching, backup, and HA/DR.
• Support database connectivity using ODBC, JDBC, and vendor drivers.
• Provide database build and advisory support to development teams.
• Review database application code and maintain artefacts in source control.

Skills

SRE principles

DevOps practices

Automation scripting

Containerization

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Jenkins

Vault

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Rundeck

Vault

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Role Overview

The Lead Database SRE is responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and automation of enterprise database platforms supporting critical business applications. This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE and DevOps principles to ensure highly available, performant, and resilient database services.

The role provides both production and development support for database platforms, with strong ownership of operational excellence, automation, incident response, performance engineering, and cloud database operations. The Lead Database SRE acts as a technical authority, customer concern point, and catalyst in modernising database operations through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.

This position has a proven focus on Oracle and SQL databases hosted on Microsoft Azure, including the migration of on prem workloads to cloud-native and hybrid architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability, Operations & Support

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of database platforms supporting business critical applications.
• Act as a point of escalation for sophisticated database production incidents and service disruptions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and shift cover, including non-standard tasks when required.
• Investigate and resolve incidents using SRE practices such as root cause analysis, error budgets, and post-incident reviews.
• Monitor database health, capacity, and performance, ensuring proactive issue prevention.

Database Engineering & Administration

• Develop, implement, and maintain database build standards, including security, patching, backup, and HA/DR.
• Perform database performance tuning, diagnostics, and optimization using tools such as AWR, ASH, ADDM, and execution plan analysis.
• Define and document backup, restore, upgrade, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Support database connectivity using ODBC, JDBC, and vendor‑specific drivers.
• Provide database build and advisory support to development and application teams.
• Review database application code, collaborate on improvements, and maintain artefacts using standard source control tools.

SRE, DevOps & Automation

• Develop and implement automation for database provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for database deployments and schema changes.
• Define and maintain a database observability and alerting strategy, combining automated alerts with targeted manual checks.
• Promote and implement self‑healing, standardisation, and automation‑first approaches across database services.

Cloud & Migration

• Lead solution design and implementation of Oracle and SQL databases on Microsoft Azure.
• Implement and support database migrations from on premise to Azure, ensuring security, resilience, and performance.
• Work closely with application, cloud, and architecture teams to build scalable and secure database environments.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise database standards and cloud security controls.

Security & Compliance

• Partner with IT Security teams to maintain and implement database security policies.
• Apply industry-standard security and compliance controls for database access, encryption, auditing, and identity management.
• Evaluate applications and database usage to ensure policy alignment.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

Core SRE / DevOps Skills

• Demonstrable experience with SRE and DevOps practices for stateful systems.
• Automation and scripting using Python, Bash/KornShell, PowerShell.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, Bitbucket, Rundeck).
• Familiarity with secrets management (HashiCorp Vault).
• Exposure to containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).

Database Technologies

• Extensive hands‑on experience with:Oracle Databases (11g, 12c, 19c, up to 23ai)RAC, Grid Infrastructure, ASM/ACFS, Data GuardExadata, RMAN, OEMPL/SQL, APEX
• Experience with SQL Server (2008-2022) and/or PostgreSQL.
• Solid understanding of HA/DR architectures and replication technologies.

Cloud & Platforms

• Good experience with Microsoft Azure database platforms.
• Exposure to AWS (RDS) and hybrid cloud database deployments.
• Linux administration experience (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris X86/Sparc).

Additional Requirements

• Experience supporting critical platforms in multi datacentre or multi region environments.
• Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to operate calmly under pressure.
• Understanding of ITIL service management frameworks.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and observability tools.
• Experience in the finance or banking sector is helpful.

Optional / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Delphix.
• Exposure to ServiceNow, Control M, Citrix, or web development platforms.
• Knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Perl scripting.
• Experience with database migration tools, distributed transactions, and data warehousing platforms.

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