Database Admin

Tata Consultancy Services; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage

Family Support: Leaves

Insurance Options: Auto & Home

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Vacation, Time Off & Holidays

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Phoenix, AZ, is seeking an experienced Database Administrator to manage multiple database platforms, ensure high availability, and optimize performance across production and development environments.

You will work with Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, YugabyteDB, and cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), automate tasks with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tools, and contribute to DR plans and security hardening.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Database Administration experience.
• Experience managing multiple database platforms in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24x7 support for Production and lower environments; act as first point of contact for DB incidents.
• Manage database startup/shutdown, failover, switchover, and maintenance validations.
• Monitor availability, logs, OEM alerts, health checks, and perform root cause analysis for Sev1/Sev2 incidents.
• Triage SQL performance using AWR/ASH, explain plans, deadlocks, and long-running queries.
• Manage backups, RMAN, Data Guard, replication, DR activities, and storage capacity.
• Automate tasks and build self-service tooling for DB operations.
• Coordinate vendor cases for DBMS issues with cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Database administration

5+ years experience

Scripting

Linux/Unix/Windows

Public Cloud

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Microsoft SQL Server

YugabyteDB

Aurora PostgreSQL

Aurora MySQL

Spanner

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Prometheus

Oracle OEM

Docker

Kubernetes

Shell

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Job Description

Role - Database Admin

Experience Required -5+ Years

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, YugabyteDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, and Spanner
• Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
• IaC: Terraform
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, ORACLE OEM
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Scripting: Shell, Python, PowerShell
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix/windows

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide 24x7 support for Production (E3) and lower environments; act as the first point of contact for database incidents, restore service, perform troubleshooting, and route issues when required.
• Manage database startups, shutdowns, restarts, instance failover, switchover, parameter changes, and pre/post maintenance validations.
• Monitor database availability, alert logs, OEM alerts, health checks, and infrastructure-related issues; perform root cause analysis for Sev1 and Sev2 incidents.
• Troubleshoot database and SQL performance using AWR, ASH, explain plans, locks, deadlocks, blocking sessions, and long-running session reports.
• Manage database, tablespace, ASM, archive log, backup, Oracle Home, and OS filesystem capacity; forecast space needs and coordinate storage additions.
• Perform proactive and ad-hoc backups, restore points, flashback restores, RMAN table recovery, database restoration, and standby database rebuild.
• Support OS and database patching, upgrades, migrations, server reboots, and application or database maintenance changes.
• Schedule and maintain backup and database jobs using OEM and CRON; configure monitoring thresholds, alerts, reports, and Grafana dashboards.
• Administer users, profiles, roles, privileges, schema unlocks, DBA IDs, application access, and required access for RFC execution.
• Maintain database security, audit configuration, TDE, encryption, and object validity checks.
• Monitor and support Data Guard, GoldenGate, PostgreSQL/SQL Server/YugabyteDB replication, replication lag resolution, DR activities, switchovers, and failovers.
• Support export/import, data truncation, and application-requested database activities in accordance with change controls.
• Develop self-service and automation tools.
• Raise and coordinate vendor cases for DBMS software issues and work directly with application, infrastructure, development, and DBA teams.
• Drive documentation, standardization, operational improvements, and DBA process automation.
• Experience in scripting and AI related tools.
• Experience on Public cloud environments.

Base Salary Range : $90,000 to $120,000 Per Annum

TCS Employee Benefits Summary

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Tra ining Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.