Database Administrator

**Location**:
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

**Job ID**:
R0107100

**Date Posted**:
2025-10-01

**Company Name**:
HITACHI INDIA PVT. LTD

**Profession (Job Category)**:
Other

**Job Schedule**:
Full time

**Remote**:
No

**Job Title**:Database Administrator

**Designation**: Database Administrator

**Company**:Hitachi Rail GTS India

**Location**:Noida, India

**Salary**:As per Industry

**Company Overview**:
Hitachi Rail is a leading partner to the world’s best transportation companies, with a comprehensive portfolio of rail solutions and services for the urban, mainline and freight railway markets.

We are an integrated group providing Digital, Green, Sustainable, and Innovative technology solutions for public transport systems.

With over 23 years of expertise in delivering Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems, we have:

- Successfully implemented the largest Metro AFC Upgrade Project in India.
- Established a Global Engineering Competency Centre (ECC) for AFCS in India.
- Developed systems capable of handling millions of ticketing transactions per day.
- Become a global leader in public transport solutions through innovation and engineering excellence.

**Job Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Database installation, configuration, and upgrades (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- Log Monitoring/Analyst, Troubleshooting, system monitoring
- Support daily monitoring of database performance and system health.
- Participate in data backup and restore operations as per defined policies.
- Help implement database security measures including user roles, privileges, and auditing.
- Monitor and troubleshoot issues related to query performance, deadlocks, and blocking sessions.
- Support patch management and maintenance activities.
- Maintain documentation related to database configurations and procedures.

**Skills**:

- Basic understanding of RDBMS concepts (tables, indexes, joins, normalization, transactions).
- Familiarity with SQL and PL/SQL or T-SQL scripting.
- Knowledge of database utilities and tools for Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Automation & Scripting: Shell Scripting, PowerShell, CI/CD Scripting, Infrastructure Automation
- Eagerness to learn database internals, architecture, and security.
- Good communication and team collaboration skills.
- Exposure to Linux and Windows server environments.
- Understanding backup strategies and disaster recovery concepts.
- Awareness of monitoring tools like OEM, SolarWinds, or Nagios etc.
- Familiarity with scripting languages like Shell or Python.
- Writing complex queries, stored procedures, triggers, and functions.
- Query optimization and performance tuning (execution plans, indexes, shrinking partitioning).
- Clustering, Always on Availability Groups, Mirroring.
- User access management, encryption, row-level security.

**Experience**:

- 7-10 Years

**Education**:

- Education: MCA/B.E./B. Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline 2+ years of experience in solution architecture or software design.

**Hitachi Values**:
We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

- Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect
- Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity
- Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge