Senior Database Operations Engineer

2 days ago

Hyderabad, Telangana, India beBeeDatabase Full time ₹ 1,50,00,000 - ₹ 2,50,00,000

About Us

We are a global leader in the healthcare industry, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our mission is to make life better for people around the world by unifying caring with discovery.

Our team of employees works together to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced professional to lead the operations, reliability, and performance engineering of on-premises and cloud database platforms supporting our Enterprise Data Platform.

This leadership role focuses on scalability, automation, reliability, and operational excellence, enabling seamless support for mission-critical data services across analytical, transactional, and integration workloads.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the database operations and reliability strategy, balancing performance, availability, and cost efficiency across on-prem and cloud ecosystems.
  • Establish and mature the DBRE model for database platforms, embedding reliability, observability, and automation in daily operations.
  • Partner with architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align operations with enterprise data and digital transformation goals.
  • Lead a team of Database Administrators, RE engineers, and platform specialists supporting global environments.
  • Foster a DevOps and SRE culture, driving collaboration between data engineering, analytics, application, and infrastructure teams.
  • Create operational playbooks, runbooks, and implementing Agentic AI on the DB Ops and Observability to standardize and streamline incident response and recovery processes.
  • Oversee day-to-day operations of enterprise databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native services like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Azure SQL.
  • Drive automation-first operations leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, and self-healing mechanisms.
  • Implement robust disaster recovery, failover, and capacity management processes to ensure high platform availability.
  • Lead performance engineering efforts, including capacity planning, tuning, and cost optimization.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need:

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 14 years of experience in enterprise database operations, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
  • Proven experience building and scaling SRE practices for data platforms in regulated, enterprise-scale environments.
  • Expertise in relational and NoSQL database platforms, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, Mongo DB, Vector DB.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native database services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Azure SQL, GCP BigQuery.
  • Proficiency in automation tools, including Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of observability tools, including Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic.
  • Knowledge of high-availability architectures, replication, sharding, and database performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance requirements in regulated industries.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as opportunities for career growth and professional development.

About Lilly

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions.

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