Senior Database Administrator (DBA Operations)

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to own the availability, performance, security, and recoverability of our production database estate across on‑prem and cloud. You will run day-to-day DBA operations, lead incident response and RCA, and set standards for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud SQL.

The role requires managing migrations, backups, DR drills, and on-call support, while advising developers on schema and SQL design.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on production DBA experience.
• Bachelors degree in computer science, IT, or equivalent.
• Preferred certifications: Oracle Certified Professional, any other DB admin certifications. GCP certifications are added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own availability, performance, security, and recoverability of production database estate across on-prem and cloud.
• Run day-to-day DBA operations and lead incident response and RCA.
• Set operating standards for Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud SQL.

Skills

Oracle DB

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cloud SQL

Performance tuning

Backup & DR

L2/L3 support

Security & encryption

Incident management

Education

Bachelors in CS/IT

Oracle Certified Professional

GCP certifications

Tools

RMAN

Data Guard

Always On

RAC

Job description

Senior Database Administrator (DBA Operations)

Experience: 5-8 years | Level: Senior Engineer

Role Summary

Own the availability, performance, security, and recoverability of our production database estate across on-prem and cloud. You will run day-to-day DBA operations, lead incident response and root cause analysis, and set operating standards for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Google Cloud SQL.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, patch, and upgrade Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cloud SQL instances.
• Provision databases to standards, refresh non-production environments, and decommission with proper data retention.
• Plan and execute migrations and version upgrades with tested rollback plans and minimal downtime.
• Design, implement, and test backup/restore, HA, and DR (Data Guard/RAC, Always On Availability Groups, streaming replication, replica sets, Cloud SQL HA and cross-region replicas).
• Validate backups regularly and run DR drills, reporting measured RTO and RPO.
• Monitor daily health: availability, replication lag, blocking, storage growth, and job failures.
• Tune queries, indexes, and configuration using execution plans, wait analysis, and diagnostic views.
• Capacity plan, manage storage, tablespaces/filegroups, partitioning, and archival/purge strategies.
• Manage user access, roles, ensuring compliance with security standards, encryption at rest and in transit, and auditing.
• Run periodic access reviews, meet patch SLAs, and provide evidence for audits.
• Provide L2/L3 support, including on-call rotation, and lead RCA for major incidents.
• Review database changes, support production deployments, and advise developers on schema and SQL design.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, IT, or equivalent experience.
• 5-8 years of hands-on production DBA experience.
• Preferred certifications: Oracle Certified Professional, any other DB admin certifications. GCP certifications are added advantage.