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Job Description

We are looking for a Database Engineer to design, build, optimize, and maintain high-performance, secure, and scalable database platforms supporting enterprise applications. The role involves working closely with application, cloud, and DevOps teams to ensure data reliability, performance, and availability across systems.

Key Responsibilities

Database Design & Development

·         Design and implement relational and NoSQL database schemas aligned with application and business requirements.

·         Develop and optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and functions.

·         Ensure data integrity, normalization, and efficient indexing strategies.

Performance & Reliability

·         Monitor and tune databases for performance, scalability, and availability.

·         Diagnose and resolve query bottlenecks, locking issues, and latency problems.

·         Plan and execute capacity planning, partitioning, and archiving strategies.

Operations, Security & Governance

·         Implement backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions.

·         Ensure data security, encryption, access controls, and compliance.

·         Support database upgrades, patching, and version migrations.

Cloud & DevOps Integration

·         Manage databases in cloud environments (AWS / Azure / GCP).

·         Work with IaC and CI/CD pipelines for database provisioning and change management.

·         Collaborate with DevOps teams on monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Collaboration & Support

·         Partner with application developers and architects on data access patterns.

·         Support production systems with on-call or escalation support as required.

·         Contribute to database standards, documentation, and best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Core Database Skills

·         Strong hands-on experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server).

·         Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra – any).

·         Advanced SQL expertise and query optimization skills.

·         Solid understanding of transactions, locking, isolation levels, and indexing.

Cloud & Platform Skills

·         Experience with managed databases such as AWS RDS / Aurora, Azure SQL / PostgreSQL, or equivalent.

·         Familiarity with replication, clustering, and failover mechanisms.

·         Knowledge of caching and data acceleration (Redis, Memcached).

Good to Have (Preferred)

·         Experience with data migration and modernization projects.

·         Exposure to data warehousing / analytics platforms (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).

·         Knowledge of event-driven or streaming data systems (Kafka, Kinesis).

·         Experience with monitoring tools and performance dashboards.