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Senior Cloud Engineer– Database

11 hours, 48 minutes ago
India
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
DevOps and Infrastructure
AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes MariaDB MySQL PostgreSQL SQL SQL Server
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AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

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Description

  • Lead day-2 management, support, and continuous improvement of contracted cloud-managed database platforms across customer environments.
  • Own complex database incidents, escalations, and problem investigations involving availability, performance, replication, connectivity, schema issues, storage growth, backup failures, and recovery scenarios.
  • Administer and optimize cloud-managed database services across AWS, Azure, and GCP for approved relational, NoSQL, in-memory, and analytics platforms.
  • Plan and execute operational changes and lifecycle activities such as scaling, parameter changes, maintenance coordination, backup validation, restore testing, failover readiness validation, and platform hygiene.
  • Perform database performance management, including query analysis, slow-query identification, index analysis, execution plan review, regression detection, lock contention analysis, and parameter tuning.
  • Validate and support backup, restore, retention, point-in-time recovery, replication health, high availability, and database-layer recovery operations.
  • Validate and support database security and compliance posture, including encryption, audit logging, CIS benchmark assessment, and network access control assessment.
  • Maintain monitoring, threshold-based alerting, runbooks, operational documentation, capacity tracking, health checks, and alert triage for contracted database instances.
  • Use approved tooling, SQL, scripting, and existing automation capabilities to improve repeatability and service delivery.
  • Partner with client application and infrastructure teams, mentor other engineers, manage provider support cases, and deliver governance reporting and incident communications.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in database administration, database engineering, or database management.
  • Experience in cloud operations, data platform operations, infrastructure support, or managed services support in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native managed database platforms in at least one major public cloud provider.
  • Strong working knowledge of SQL and database fundamentals, including indexing, query plans, locking and concurrency, transactions, replication, high availability, backup and restore, recovery models, and capacity management.
  • Experience administering or supporting relational database engines such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or Oracle in managed cloud database services or equivalent production environments.
  • Experience leading complex incidents, performance management, backup and recovery validation, failover readiness, minor version and patch planning, and operational change execution.
  • Experience with cloud database security, private connectivity, encryption, auditing, identity and access controls, network access controls, and compliance requirements.
  • Preferred experience in a managed services, consulting, or multi-customer support environment.
  • Preferred experience supporting more than one public cloud database ecosystem or service model, including relational, NoSQL, distributed, cache, analytics, or serverless platforms.
  • Relevant cloud, database, data platform, Kubernetes, or operations certifications are a plus.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents.
  • Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy.
  • Flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance.
  • Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling.
  • Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being.
  • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations.
  • Inclusive, people-first culture with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership.
  • Certification and credential sponsorship for continued learning.

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