Senior SRE Consultant

ThoughtWorks; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtWorks Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to manage secure, scalable databases across AWS and Azure, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

You will own security and compliance, lifecycle management, performance tuning, automation, DR readiness, incident response, and capacity planning to ensure high availability for mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing security controls, encryption, and auditing.
• Hands-on experience with patching, upgrades and lifecycle management of databases.
• Proficiency in tuning and optimizing databases for diverse workloads across cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Database Security and Compliance: Implement robust security controls, encryption, and auditing to safeguard sensitive data and meet regulatory requirements.
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee patching, upgrades, and end-of-life transitions to maintain platform stability and minimise risk.
• Performance Optimisation: Monitor and tune databases for optimal performance across diverse workloads.
• Automation and Operational Excellence: Design and deploy automation for provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance to achieve brilliant basics and reduce manual intervention.
• Business-Critical Certification: Validate and certify database environments to support mission-critical applications with high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Incident and Problem Management: Provide rapid response and root-cause analysis for database-related incidents to ensure business continuity.
• Capacity Planning and Scalability: Forecast growth and optimise resources to support evolving business needs.

Skills

Database security

SQL Server / Oracle / PostgreSQL

Automation

Disaster recovery

Performance tuning

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

CI/CD tooling

Scripting: Python/Bash/PowerShell

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Job description

Our Database Team is the foundation of enterprise-grade databases, delivering secure, compliant and high-performing database platforms across Azure and AWS. We provide managed services for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, operating in a system DBA role to ensure platform reliability, resilience, and operational excellence. In addition, we support PaaS and RDS database services by acting as the platform team, defining policies, enforcing security standards, and managing networking configurations while enabling self-service capabilities for application teams to consume these services efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Database Security and Compliance: Implement robust security controls, encryption, and auditing to safeguard sensitive data and meet regulatory requirements.
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee patching, upgrades, and end-of-life transitions to maintain platform stability and minimise risk.
• Performance Optimisation: Monitor and tune databases for optimal performance across diverse workloads.
• Automation and Operational Excellence: Design and deploy automation for provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance to achieve brilliant basics and reduce manual intervention.
• Business-Critical Certification: Validate and certify database environments to support mission-critical applications with high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Incident and Problem Management: Provide rapid response and root-cause analysis for database-related incidents to ensure business continuity.
• Capacity Planning and Scalability: Forecast growth and optimise resources to support evolving business needs.

Technology Expertise and DBA Skill Set

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure.
• Database IaaS: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL.
• Database PaaS: CosmosDB, MySQL, SQL Managed Instance, RDS Aurora, MongoDB.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible.
• CI/CD and Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps.
• Programming and Scripting: Python Bash/Shell PowerShell.
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix (RHEL Ubuntu), Window.