Senior Database Administrator

Lever, Inc.; India; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Full-time salary

Cloud exposure across OCI & AWS

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Database Administrator based in India to own disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cloud migrations across Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server environments. The role covers on-premises, OCI, and AWS, with emphasis on DR readiness and cross-team collaboration.

The ideal candidate will lead backup strategies, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure high availability for prod, staging, and development databases. Remote work is offered as part of a full-time role.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on DBA experience with Oracle and MS SQL Server.
• Experience designing and managing disaster recovery solutions (Data Guard, Always On, Log Shipping).
• Knowledge of OCI database hosting and management.
• Strong database performance tuning at query, instance, and infra levels.
• Experience with cloning, data refresh, and cross-platform connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Own disaster recovery and performance initiatives for multi-DB environments.
• Administer and monitor Oracle 11g/12c/19c/21c and SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 across prod, staging, dev.
• Configure DR solutions and perform DR drills with RTO/RPO documentation.
• Handle cloud provisioning, backup configuration, and patching on OCI.
• Perform SQL tuning, index optimization, and memory/I/O tuning.
• Collaborate with application, infra, cloud, and client teams on DB requirements.

Skills

Oracle DBA

SQL Server DBA

Disaster recovery

Cloud migrations

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Data Guard

Always On

RMAN

OEM

SolarWinds

Zabbix

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Database Administrator based in India.

This role is responsible for managing the availability, performance, security, and resiliency of critical database environments across Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. You will work across on-premises infrastructure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and AWS, with a strong focus on disaster recovery, cloud migration, and performance optimization. The position offers broad technical ownership across production, staging, and development environments. You will play a key role in maintaining reliable backup and recovery strategies, resolving complex incidents, and ensuring database environments remain operational and resilient. Collaboration with application, infrastructure, cloud, and client teams will be an important part of the role. This is a hands‑on opportunity for an experienced DBA who thrives in technically demanding, fast‑paced production environments.

Accountabilities

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will take ownership of database administration, disaster recovery, performance, cloud operations, migrations, and ongoing production support across multiple database technologies.

• Administer, monitor, and maintain Oracle 11g/12c/19c/21c and Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2019/2022 across production, staging, and development environments.
• Perform database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance.
• Manage database security, user roles, privileges, and access controls.
• Design, configure, and maintain disaster recovery solutions using Oracle Data Guard, including Physical and Logical Standby, and SQL Server technologies such as Always On Availability Groups, Log Shipping, and Mirroring.
• Conduct regular disaster recovery drills, failover and switchover testing, and document RTO/RPO compliance.
• Troubleshoot replication lag, synchronization problems, and disaster recovery incidents.
• Manage and support databases hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Base Database Service, Exadata Cloud Service, and Autonomous Database where applicable.
• Handle OCI database provisioning, backup configuration, patching, monitoring, networking, storage, and security requirements.
• Perform SQL query tuning, execution plan analysis, index optimization, and instance‑level performance tuning across Oracle and SQL Server.
• Monitor and optimize memory, I/O, wait events, and other database and infrastructure‑level performance factors.
• Proactively identify and resolve database performance bottlenecks.
• Perform database cloning using RMAN Duplicate, Data Pump, and SQL Server backup/restore‑based approaches.
• Execute regular database refreshes between production, UAT, and development environments, including data masking where required.
• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot Oracle DB Links and SQL Server Linked Servers for cross-database and cross-platform connectivity.
• Manage backup and recovery strategies using RMAN and native SQL Server backup and restore tools, validating recovery readiness.
• Support database migrations from on‑premises environments to cloud, cloud-to-cloud migrations, and migrations between SQL Server and Oracle where required.
• Maintain accurate documentation for configurations, disaster recovery runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and client teams on database-related requirements and initiatives.
• Participate in on-call and rotational production support as needed.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will bring extensive hands‑on DBA experience across both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, combined with strong disaster recovery, cloud, performance tuning, and troubleshooting expertise. You should be comfortable taking independent ownership of critical database initiatives while collaborating effectively with technical and client‑facing teams.

• 9+ years of hands‑on database administration experience with strong expertise in both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing disaster recovery solutions such as Data Guard, Always On, Log Shipping, or equivalent technologies.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for database hosting and management.
• Strong expertise in database performance tuning at the query, instance, and infrastructure levels.
• Practical experience with database cloning and database refresh processes.
• Strong understanding of database links, linked servers, and cross‑platform database connectivity.
• Solid knowledge of backup and recovery technologies, including RMAN and native SQL Server backup and restore.
• Good understanding of database security, patching, and upgrade methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident‑resolution skills, particularly in production environments under pressure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with cross‑functional and client teams.
• Ability to independently own and drive disaster recovery and performance initiatives.
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced production‑support environments.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to prioritize effectively during critical incidents.

Preferred / Nice to have

• Oracle OCP or Microsoft SQL Server certification.
• Exposure to Exadata or Autonomous Database.
• Scripting experience with Shell, PowerShell, or Python for DBA automation.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as OEM, SolarWinds, or Zabbix.
• Experience working in managed services or multi‑client support environments.

Benefits

• Remote working arrangement.
• Full‑time salaried employment.
• Opportunity to work across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, OCI, and AWS environments.
• Broad technical ownership spanning database administration, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, migrations, and performance engineering.
• Exposure to complex production environments and cross‑functional technical teams.
• Opportunity to lead initiatives around database resiliency, automation, performance, and cloud transformation.

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