Title and SummarySenior Database Engineer – Senior Database Administrator (Senior DBA) with deep expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL to lead the stability, performance, and evolution of enterprise database platforms.RoleAs a Senior DBA, you will own the end‑to‑end administration, optimization, and operational excellence of enterprise database environments. You will lead database configuration, patching, upgrades, and performance tuning initiatives, ensuring high availability, resiliency, and compliance with security and governance standards. You will proactively monitor database platforms, identify and resolve complex performance and stability issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive long‑term remediation and optimization strategies. You will play a senior role in database architecture decisions, backup and recovery design, replication strategies, and cloud‑based database administration. This role requires close collaboration with application, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams to translate business and technical requirements into scalable database solutions.You will ensure adherence to change, incident, and problem management processes while continuously improving operational maturity. In addition, you will champion database best practices, standards, and governance across the organization, contribute to process improvements, and provide technical leadership through mentoring and guidance of junior DBAs. Participation in an on‑call rotation, including after‑hours and weekend support, is required to ensure service continuity.All About YouYou are a seasoned database professional with extensive experience managing mission‑critical, enterprise‑scale database platforms.Oracle and PostgreSQL database administration, including configuration, patching, upgrades, and performance optimizationAdvanced SQL and PL/SQL development, query tuning, and DDL design to support application and platform teamsLinux/Unix environments, shell scripting, and database automation using Shell, PL/SQL, and related toolsBackup, recovery, and replication technologies, including RMAN and pg_dumpDatabase monitoring and observability using tools such as Dynatrace and SplunkDatabase security concepts, including users, roles, privileges, access controls, and compliance considerationsDatabase architecture, networking fundamentals, and high‑availability design patternsCloud platforms and managed database services, including cloud‑based administration conceptsStrong performance tuning and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues, optimize queries and indexing strategies, and improve overall system efficiencyComfortable leading moderate to large database initiatives, planning complex technical efforts, and coordinating work across multiple teamsEffective communication with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, advocating for database best practices and governanceStrong documentation skills, actively contributing to database processes, runbooks, and operational guidelinesThrives in a global, collaborative environment, enjoys mentoring junior team members, and continuously looks for opportunities to improve database reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
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