Cloud Database Engineer II/III - IN

Location: IND-Work from Home-Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

• Critical Competencies:
  • Expertise in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for administration and migration.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL/PAAS DB, scripting, and automation.
  • Experience in AWS/Azure Cloud environments.
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Create and maintain SOPs for migration execution.
  • Formulate and monitor database management policies, procedures, and standards.
  • Provide design standards and guidance for projects and technical roadmaps.
  • Mentor and train Level 1 and Level 2 DBAs.
  • Engage with customers to streamline project deliverables.
  • Forecast database growth and plan for hardware and storage requirements.
  • Plan and deploy high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Execute database software upgrades, patches, and service packs.
  • Investigate and resolve complex database-related issues.
  • Develop automation tools to streamline tasks.
  • Set up monitoring and alerting systems.
  • Generate performance reports and analysis.
  • Maintain up-to-date documentation of database configurations.
  • Resolve incidents, changes, and service requests under client SLAs.
  • Create detailed RCA reports for problem management.
  • Evaluate and manage third-party tools for database management.
  • Participate in sales implementations and vendor calls.
  • Provide 24x7 production support for database operations.
  • Execute large, complex database projects.
• Knowledge and Skills:
  • Proficient in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for architecture, installation, configuration, performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience in planning and executing database migrations and upgrades.
  • Cloud-enabled for project-based migrations, automation, and administration.
  • Familiarity with industry best practices for database administration.
  • Effective communication of technical information.
  • Leadership skills for unexpected situations.
  • Experience with automation using Python, AWS CLI, PowerShell, Shell.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, Terraform, GitHub.
  • Ability to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot HADR configurations.
  • Knowledge of deploying and managing RDBMS in cloud platforms.
  • Understanding of monitoring tools like Datadog, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch.
  • Usage of ITIL-based ticket tools like ServiceNow.

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