Sr. Database Engineer

Responsibilities
 

Hands-on driver for Database Migration to Cloud: Oversee the migration of databases to the cloud, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity

Database Security Management: Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. Perform regular security scans on all databases to ensure compliance with security standards and policies. Ensure security defects are resolved within SLA

Disaster Recovery: Develop and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery plans to ensure data integrity and availability in case of system failures or disasters. Own and drive disaster recovery (DR) plans (for db) and ensure recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) are met for all databases

Database Design: Design databases for high availability, scalability, and performance that meet platform SLIs

Collaboration with Development Teams: Work closely with software development teams to integrate databases with applications and ensure efficient data flow

Performance Monitoring and Tuning: Continuously monitor database performance and implement tuning measures to optimize query execution and resource utilization. Obtain and analyze Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports to identify performance bottlenecks and suggest tuning improvements. Conduct thorough SQL code reviews, optimize queries for performance, and implement best practices

Test Data Management: Introduce and maintain automated processes to simplify non-production environment (NPE) test data management

Database Optimization

Implement data archival and cleanup strategies

Work with dev teams on identifying and cleanup of deprecated/unused users, objects and schemas to simplify the databases

Evaluate and propose alternative technologies to simplify the database footprint

Task Automation Develop automation scripts for routine database tasks. Actively integrate with CI/CD pipelines where possible

Skills

At least 5-6 years of hands-on Oracle RDBMS experience including developing, designing and managing databases independently; Experience in data migration and noSQL esp. Graph DB is good to have

At least 2-3 years of PL/SQL programming, performing reviews and performance tuning

At least 1–2-year experience in using GoldenGate for data replication

At least 1-2 years of experience in creating, managing AWS RDS and integration with application platforms, and IAM role management

Experience in ETL tools is good to have

At least 3-4 years of scripting (shell, py, go or similar higher-level programming lang)

Must have on experience with Git & CICD tools, able to navigate and work independently