Senior Team Lead | Engineering - Database Management

Deloitte Shared Services India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Shared Services India is seeking a Senior Team Lead in Engineering, AI & Data Engineering to lead PostgreSQL database management in Bangalore. You will drive performance, reliability, and automation for mission-critical databases in AWS RDS and Aurora.

The role requires 7+ years of hands-on PostgreSQL experience, strong scripting skills, and collaboration across product, infra, and DevOps teams. Excellent communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of PostgreSQL DBA experience.
• Hands-on with AWS RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience with performance tuning, replication, and high availability.
• Proficient in Linux/Unix, shell scripting, and Python.
• Knowledge of CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, AWS Backup, and Secrets Manager.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Manage RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL environments.
• Perform migrations, upgrades, backups, and recovery activities.
• Monitor database performance and implement tuning recommendations.
• Configure replication, high availability, failover, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting and tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and stakeholder communication.

Skills

PostgreSQL DBA

AWS RDS PostgreSQL

Aurora PostgreSQL

Performance tuning

Replication & HA

Shell scripting

Python

Linux/Unix

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

IAM

KMS

Education

Any Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Senior Team Lead | Engineering, AI & Data Engineering | Database Management

Location:Bangalore

The team

Engineering helps empower and drive mission‑critical solutions whether we need to modernize existing systems or implement new technology products and platforms. Through innovation, we improve financial performance, accelerate new digital businesses and fuel growth.Learn more about Engineering, AI and Data

Your work profile

We are seeking an experienced PostgreSQL Database Administrator with approximately 7 years of hands‑on experience in administering, optimizing, and supporting mission‑critical PostgreSQL databases. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS‑managed database services such as Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, along with experience in performance tuning, high availability, backup and recovery, security, and database automation.

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain PostgreSQL databases.
• Manage RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL environments.
• Perform database migrations, upgrades, backup and recovery activities.
• Monitor database performance and implement tuning recommendations.
• Configure replication, high availability, failover, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
• Automate routine DBA tasks using scripting and tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work independently in production environments.

Key skills required:

• Education - Any Bachelors or Masters degree
• 7+ years of PostgreSQL DBA experience.
• Expertise in query optimization, indexing, partitioning, and performance tuning.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS RDS PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Experience with CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, AWS Backup, and Secrets Manager.
• Linux/Unix administration skills.
• Shell scripting and Python experience.
• Experience with large-scale production databases.
• Exposure to Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Alert manager and Grafana
• Understanding of CloudWatch Database Insights