Senior Database Administrator

Persistent; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Education sponsorship for higher certs

Work with cutting-edge technologies

Long Service awards

Annual health check-ups

Insurance coverage: group term life, P

Job summary

Persistent is seeking a Senior Database Administrator in Pune to design, administer, and maintain large-scale NoSQL and SQL databases across global data centers and clouds. You will automate and tune data platforms, ensure high availability, and collaborate with diverse teams to drive reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, operational excellence, and mentoring on database technologies within a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Proficient in Kafka-based data streaming architectures.
• Hands-on automation using scripting languages.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS) and IaC.
• Familiarity with monitoring and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and maintain Cassandra and MongoDB for high availability.
• Manage MySQL/MariaDB/Percona environments and performance tuning.
• Monitor health, capacity, and availability; resolve issues proactively.
• Automate tasks using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Implement and manage Puppet/Ansible/Chef configurations.

Skills

NoSQL databases

Cassandra

MongoDB

MySQL

MariaDB

Percona

Kafka

Automation scripting

Monitoring & alerting

AWS

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

Collaboration

Distributed systems

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

MS in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

Terraform

Job description

About Position:

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling our most critical data storage and intelligence platforms. You will build, maintain, and scale production services and server farms across multiple global data centers and public cloud providers. You will contribute to the product architecture to improve our services' performance, operability, scalability, service reliability, capacity, and observability. We are looking for passion, curiosity, attention to details, taking pride in one's work, taking ownership, and having ideas/opinions. If you're the enthusiastic team player who builds and tunes the highest performing databases out there, remains calm in a crisis, collaborates well, and codes automation.

• Role: Senior Database Administrator
• Location: Pune
• Experience: 12+ Years
• Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Design, administer, and maintain NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Manage and support SQL databases including MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona environments.
• Monitor database health, performance, capacity, and availability, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Administer and maintain Kafka messaging infrastructure to support reliable data streaming and integration.
• Automate database and system administration tasks using scripting languages and automation frameworks.
• Implement and manage configuration management solutions such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive resolution of database-related incidents.
• Configure and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure operational excellence.
• Execute database upgrades, patches, backups, recovery procedures, and performance tuning activities.
• Follow and contribute to operational best practices, including change management, incident management, and capacity planning.
• Support database platforms across public cloud and traditional datacenter environments.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure reliable and scalable database services.
• Promote and implement database best practices, standards, and governance across the organization.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge‑sharing materials.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship on database technologies and data platform operations.

Expertise you will bring:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in the design, maintenance, and administration of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB) required.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in the design, maintenance, and administration of traditional SQL‑based databases (MySQL, MariaDB, Percona) required.
• Experience managing Kafka message bus infrastructures strongly preferred.
• Experience automating management of systems & database using common scripting languages.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a demonstrated track record of leveraging them to evangelize technical best practices with databases/data intelligence platforms.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.
• Experience with industry‑standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in both public clouds and traditional colocation datacenters.
• Experience using Puppet, Ansible, Chef, or analogous configuration management systems.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience required.
• Experience with Puppet for infrastructure automation.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience working in highly available, distributed environments.
• Exposure to MongoDB and other NoSQL technologies.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company‑sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting‑edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check‑ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values‑Driven, People‑Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility‑friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment.

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