Senior Database SRE – Oracle & PostgreSQL

athenahealth; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 8,00,000 - 12,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health-tech company is seeking a Database Administrator to join their Cloud Infrastructure Engineering division in Bangalore. The role involves ensuring the stability and scalability of systems while developing automated solutions for database management. Ideal candidates should possess strong experience in OS/database tuning, AWS services, and have PostgreSQL DBA expertise. The company values inclusivity and flexibility, offering a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Commuter support

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance programs

Collaborative workspaces

Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience with highly available systems.
• Expertise in OS and database tuning for performance and scalability.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment.

Responsibilities

• Apply resilience engineering principles for system stability.
• Develop automated solutions for database administration.
• Design and implement services aligned with Infrastructure-as-Code principles.

Skills

Resilience engineering

OS and database tuning

Relational database design

SQL

Oracle tools

PostgreSQL DBA experience

AWS services

Scripting/programming in Python

Monitoring tools

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

athenahealth is a progressive & innovative U.S. health-tech leader, delivering cloud-based solutions that improve clinical and financial performance across the care continuum. Our modern, open ecosystem connects care teams and delivers actionable insights that drive better outcomes. Acquired by Bain Capital in a $17B deal. We foster a values-driven culture focused on flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance. Headquartered in Boston, we have offices in Atlanta, Austin, Belfast, Burlington, and in India: Bangalore, Chennai and Pune.

Position Summary: We are looking for a Database Administrator (DBA) to join our Cloud Infrastructure Engineering division in Bangalore. This team ensures the continuous availability of the technologies and systems that form the foundation of athenahealth’s services. We manage thousands of servers, petabytes of storage, and handle thousands of web requests per second, all while supporting rapid growth.

The Team: We are a group of Site Reliability Engineers focused on reliability, automation, and scalability. We work in agile frameworks, support systems in private and public cloud, and prioritize data-driven decisions.

Job Responsibilities

• Apply resilience engineering principles to ensure stability, security, and scalability.
• Use technologies like AWS, Terraform, and Oracle to drive product success.
• Develop automated solutions for database administration and infrastructure tasks.
• Design and implement services aligned with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles.

Typical Qualifications

• Minimum 4+ years of experience with highly available systems and services.
• Expertise in OS and database tuning for performance and scalability.
• Strong understanding of relational database design and SQL.
• Experience with Oracle tools, version upgrades, migrations, and patching.
• Knowledge of multi-tenancy, GoldenGate, and DataGuard.
• Proficiency in OEM, RMAN catalog, and PL/SQL.
• Experience with enterprise server, storage, and networking architecture.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL DBA experience in a 24x7 production environment.
• Familiarity with server lifecycle workflows.
• Ability to drive system visibility for rapid issue resolution.
• Experience with AWS services: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, Lambda, ECS/EKS, Load Balancing, etc.
• Exposure to Puppet and Terraform.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming: Ansible, Python, Shell.
• Experience with SRE/DevOps principles, CI/CD, Bitbucket/GitHub.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana.
• Experience with GenAI is a plus.

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What we can do for you

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers

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