Senior PostgreSQL SRE

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent in Pune is looking for a Senior PostgreSQL SRE. This critical role ensures systems' reliability, availability, and scalability through efficient incident response and automation techniques.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in PostgreSQL administration, proven SRE practices within large organizations, and a solid background in database performance tuning and DevOps tooling.

Join us to contribute to our technology communities and drive innovations in database management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator focusing on PostgreSQL.
• More than ten years of professional experience in database technologies.
• Leadership experience in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems.
• Resolve system outages and implement preventive measures.
• Develop tools to automate operational processes.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Database performance tuning

DevOps practices

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Job Summary

Senior PostgreSQL SRE – Barclays, Pune.

Purpose of the Role

To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology within the organization.

Core Responsibilities

• Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
• Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and address policy breaches.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead specialists to influence the department’s operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balance short and long‑term goals, and ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic; Energise and inspire; Align across the enterprise; Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, act as a subject‑matter expert in own discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, guide team members, identify need for inclusion of other specialisations, train, guide and coach less‑experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross‑functional impact and alignment; manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda; demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization’s functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies; create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, compare and select complex alternatives; define problems and develop innovative solutions; adopt research outcomes in problem‑solving processes; build trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives using influencing and negotiating skills.

Leadership & Strategy

People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver a consistently excellent standard.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator focusing on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS‑SQL.
• Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
• More than ten years of professional experience and expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus), with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
• Leadership role in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
• Proven expertise in SQL query optimisation and database performance tuning at scale.
• Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers, and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
• Experience implementing PostgreSQL Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a PostgreSQL operator or Helm charts.
• Recognised as a PostgreSQL subject‑matter expert, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
• Proven experience designing and executing database migration strategies at enterprise‑scale.
• Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross‑functional teams.
• Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high‑performance, high‑availability databases with 24/7 uptime.

Desired Skills

• Extensive knowledge and working experience in Technology, Information, and Security domain.
• Working experience in a financial environment.
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working on data migration tools and software.
• Expertise with system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
• Expertise with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks.
• AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is a plus.

Assessment

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

Location

Pune, India.