Senior Database Administrator

Job Overview

We are seeking a seasoned hands-on senior engineer to join the Platform Engineering team at Cendyn as a Senior Database this role you will lead the design reliability and modernization of our multi-engine production database fleet mentor and grow the DBA practice partner with cloud and AppDev teams on data architecture and act as the senior escalation point for database incidents. You will help us drive improvements to our significant public cloud footprint DevOps pipelines and processes and observability practice with a particular focus on the data tier.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the operation of a multi-engine production database fleet across Oracle SQL Server MySQL/MariaDB PostgreSQL and MongoDBboth self-managed and cloud-managed (Aurora RDS Azure SQLCloud SQL)
• Own the design and evolution of our database architectureHA topology replication strategy partitioning/sharding multi-region read replicas and backup/recovery design
• Drive multi-engine modernization initiatives end-to-end including engine version EOL upgrades on-prem to cloud migrations and database engine consolidation efforts
• Set document and enforce DBA practice standards across the organization (naming conventions schema design patterns backup/restore SLAs change-management procedures)
• Act as the senior escalation tier on the database on-call rotationdrive root-cause analysis lead post-incident reviews and articulate SLOs at the database layer
• Mentor and grow junior and mid-level Database Administratorspaired sessions design reviews runbook authoring on-call shadowing and growth-path coaching
• Own the database-tier disaster recovery programRPO/RTO articulation DR drill design and recovery-testing cadence
• Lead PII PCI and compliance posture at the database tierencryption at rest and in transit audit logging data classification secrets rotation and least-privilege access design
• Drive query- index- and schema-level performance engineering at scale; mentor others in performance tuning techniques
• Stay current on emerging database technologies cloud-native database services and industry best practices; bring recommendations back to the team

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on database administration experience across at least three engines
• Strongproficiencywith Oracle (8 years)
• Strongproficiencywith MySQL / MariaDB (5 years)
• Working production experience with at least two of: SQL Server PostgreSQL MongoDB
• Demonstrated production experience with cloud-managed database services (Aurora RDS Azure SQL Database or CloudSQL)
• Expert-levelproficiencywith SQLquery optimization execution plan analysis advanced indexing strategies
• Demonstratedtrack recordleading multi-engine modernization initiatives (version upgrades RDBMS migrations on-prem to cloud)
• Track recordmentoring database administrators and leading practice-level standards or design reviews
• Experience designing and owning the architecture of ETL pipelines and data transformation flows at scale
• Strong understanding of database high-availability patterns (replication topologies failover design multi-region considerations)
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practicesnetwork security data encryptioncertificatesand PKI IAM and database-tier audit logging
• Experience leading incident response root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews at the database layer
• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA Confluence) and working as part of an Agile team
• Experience with version control and source code management toolslike gitGitHubBitbucket etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with database-as-code tooling (Terraform modules for RDS / Aurora / managed-DB services)
• Familiarity with database observability tooling (Datadog AWS Performance Insights Azure SQL Insights or similar)
• Excellent communication skills (reading writing speaking) in English
• Comfortable presenting to engineering managers leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Work Schedule:

Monday through Friday from 2 PM to 11 PM IST. This will provide healthy overlap between India team and US team and supporting both to ensure adequate collaboration. This role will be working in Hybrid Mode and will require at least 2 days work from office at Hyderabad.

EEO Statement

Cendyn provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or addition to federal law requirements Cendyn complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Cendyn expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Cendyns employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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