About the role
- Operations & Delivery: Oversee daily database support, maintenance, patching, and high-availability operations (such as clustering or replication).
- Architecture & Strategy: Drive structural design, capacity planning, software upgrades, and cross-platform migrations.
- Security & Compliance: Enforce strict data governance, security parameters, and disaster recovery/backup plans.
- Team Leadership: Mentor junior and mid-level DBAs, manage escalations, and coordinate with cross-functional IT infrastructure towers.
- Technical Stack: Advanced proficiency in platforms MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL
- Cloud Knowledge: Experience managing cloud-hosted databases (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Soft Skills: Incident management, stakeholder communication, and vendor coordination"