Senior Database Administrator

About Position:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Database Administrator to join our Product Engineering team. This role involves managing and optimizing database systems, ensuring performance, integrity, and security, and contributing to automation and scalability efforts.

• Role: Senior Database Administrator
• Location: All Persistent Locations
• Experience: 10 to 14 Years
• Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our database systems, ensuring their performance, integrity, and security.
• Monitor and maintain database performance, integrity, and security.
• Perform root cause analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting for performance issues.
• Conduct regular health checks and generate performance evaluation reports.
• Manage database migrations and upgrades for improved scalability.
• Automate routine maintenance tasks including DML, DDL, and replication.
• Provide secure data access for audits, investigations, and reporting.
• Prototype and implement scalable database solutions.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery strategies are effective.

Expertise You'll Bring:

• We expect candidates to bring deep technical expertise and hands-on experience in managing complex database environments.
• 10+ years of experience with PostgreSQL including tuning, backup/recovery, scaling, and migration.
• Familiarity with AWS RDS and GCP CloudSQL.
• Understanding of high availability solutions for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Ability to evaluate and prototype NewSQL solutions for large-scale use cases.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure automation.
• Advanced command-line skills in UNIX/Linux environments.
• Experience in query optimization and performance tuning.
• Knowledge of table-level fragmentation and index rebuilding.
• Expertise in database parameter tuning and monitoring tools.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent Ltd. is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent -

"Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.