Senior Database Administrator

VikingCloud India; Vadodara; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in India is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and optimize database systems critical to cloud operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, focusing on performance tuning and disaster recovery. This full-time role offers opportunities in a collaborative IT environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience as a DBA focusing on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent NoSQL systems.
• Strong understanding of replication, clustering, and high-availability architectures.
• Proven experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and index management.
• Solid knowledge of backup/recovery procedures and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience working in cloud-first or hybrid cloud environments.
• Excellent documentation skills and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain database systems across development, staging, and production environments.
• Engineer, implement, and manage robust backup and recovery solutions.
• Continuously monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and conduct tuning.
• Ensure database implementations align with established standards and security policies.
• Develop and maintain database solutions optimized for cloud-based environments.

Skills

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

performance tuning

disaster recovery

automation

technical documentation

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Title: Senior Database Administrator

Total number of Position: 5 positions

Department: IT / Infrastructure

Reports To: Director of Infrastructure or Database Services Manager

Type: Full-Time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Database Administrator to lead the management, optimization, and support of our database infrastructure. This role is critical to ensuring the performance, availability, and scalability of database systems that support mission-critical applications within our shared cloud operations environment. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other NoSQL technologies, and a proactive approach to performance tuning, disaster recovery, and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or NoSQL database systems across development, staging, and production environments.
• Engineer, implement, and manage robust backup and recovery solutions, including replication and failover strategies for disaster recovery.
• Continuously monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, and conduct tuning and optimization to ensure high availability and low latency.
• Ensure database implementations align with established standards, security policies, and best practices.
• Design, test, and validate database solutions to ensure they meet functional and technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain database solutions optimized for cloud-based shared environments, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) where applicable.
• Collaborate with project managers and engineering teams to support the implementation and long-term configuration management of databases.
• Lead and execute configuration change activities as part of deployment and maintenance processes in shared database environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and configuration records to support efficient knowledge sharing and auditing requirements.
• Author knowledge base articles and SOPs to assist Tier 1 and Tier 2 support teams with common incident responses and resolution workflows.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands‑on experience as a DBA with a focus on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent NoSQL systems.
• Strong understanding of replication, clustering, and high‑availability architectures.
• Proven experience in performance tuning, query optimization, and index management.
• Solid knowledge of backup/recovery procedures and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience working in cloud‑first or hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, automation, and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines is a plus.
• Excellent documentation skills and ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
• Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef)
• Understanding of database security best practices and role‑based access controls
• Ability to script in Bash, Python, or similar for administrative automation tasks

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting, Computer and Network Security, and Technology, Information and Media