Sr. lead, Infra Cloud Database Engineer

Quest Oracle Community; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust in Pune, India is seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud DBA to join our Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms on Microsoft Azure. This role goes beyond traditional DBA support and focuses on engineering‑led database platforms, cloud migration, automation, resilience, and continuous improvement.

The Senior Cloud DBA will mentor junior DBAs and partner closely with application, cloud foundation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent).
• 10+ years in cloud engineering and database administration with 15+ years total in technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms on Azure.
• Define reference architectures for Oracle on Azure IaaS and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
• Build scalable, secure, highly available database solutions aligned to cloud best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and engineering design discussions.
• Experience with backup/recovery design, DR, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Experience with on‑prem database migration to cloud, storage management, provisioning and optimization.
• Own end-to-end lifecycle of Oracle (19c/23ai) and PostgreSQL databases.
• Perform upgrades, patching, configuration.

Skills

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Azure

Cloud architecture

Architecture reviews

Performance tuning

DR design

Cloud migration

Mentoring juniors

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world's most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary :

We are looking for a Highly skilled Senior Cloud DBA to join our Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, modernizing, and operating Oracle nd PostgreSQL database platforms on Microsoft Azure.

This role goes beyond traditional DBA support and focuses on engineering‑led database platforms, cloud migration, automation, resilience, and continuous improvement. The Senior Cloud DBA will act as a technical authority, mentor junior DBAs, and partner closely with application, cloud foundation team, and Infrastructure Control Governance board.

Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience

Bachelorʼs degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

10+ years of experience in Cloud engineering, Database Administration in Oracle and PostgreSQL with 15+ years of total work experience in Technology Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities and Required Skills
Cloud Database Engineering & Architecture

Design and engineer Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms on Azure

Define reference architectures for:

• Oracle on Azure IaaS (VM-based)
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Flexible / Single Server)
• Build scalable, secure, and highly available database solutions aligned to cloud best practices
• Participate in architecture reviews and engineering design discussions
• Experience with backup/recovery design, DR implementation, monitoring implementation, performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience with on‑Prem database migration to cloud, storage management, provisioning and optimization.

Database Administration & Reliability

• Own end-to‑end lifecycle of Oracle (19c/23ai) and PostgreSQL databases
• Perform upgrades, patching, configuration,