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Senior SingleStore Database Administrator (Enterprise DBA)
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8years
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5 September 2026 (9 hours ago)
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3 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Position: Senior SingleStore Database Administrator (Enterprise DBA)
Location: Hyderabad
Experience
8 years of overall enterprise DBA experience with strong hands-on experience managing SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) in large-scale mission-critical production environments.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Database Administrator with strong expertise in SingleStore and extensive experience managing large highly available distributed database environments.
The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of managing mission-critical enterprise databases handling complex production incidents performing database architecture and performance optimization implementing HA/DR solutions and driving database reliability scalability security and automation.
This role requires someone who can operate independently at an enterprise DBA/SME level provide technical leadership and work closely with application engineering infrastructure DevOps and architecture teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the administration and reliability of enterprise-scale SingleStore database platforms across production and non-production environments.
- Design deploy configure upgrade patch and maintain large SingleStore clusters.
- Manage distributed database architecture including aggregators leaf nodes partitions replication sharding and cluster topology.
- Provide 247 production support for business-critical database environments.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex database performance availability and capacity issues.
- Perform advanced SQL and database performance tuning including query-plan analysis indexing workload optimization and resource utilization.
- Design and maintain high availability disaster recovery backup restore and business continuity solutions.
- Develop and execute database capacity planning and scalability strategies for high-volume workloads.
- Plan and execute major database upgrades migrations cluster expansions and infrastructure changes with minimal business disruption.
- Establish enterprise standards for database configuration security monitoring backup recovery and operational procedures.
- Implement proactive monitoring and alerting for database health performance availability storage memory CPU replication and cluster capacity.
- Automate DBA operations health checks monitoring maintenance and deployment activities using Python Shell scripting or other automation technologies.
- Conduct regular disaster-recovery exercises and validate backup and recovery processes.
- Implement database security including RBAC access controls authentication auditing encryption and compliance requirements.
- Work with architects and engineering teams on database design data modeling workload architecture and scalability.
- Participate in enterprise architecture and technology decisions related to database platforms.
- Establish and maintain DBA runbooks SOPs standards operational documentation and troubleshooting procedures.
- Mentor junior and mid-level DBAs and provide technical leadership on complex database initiatives.
- Participate in incident problem and change-management processes and provide detailed post-incident RCA reports.
- Drive continuous improvement in database availability performance automation and operational efficiency.
Mandatory Technical Skills
- Extensive enterprise DBA experience in large-scale production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with SingleStore / MemSQL.
- Deep understanding of distributed database architecture.
- Expert-level SQL and database performance tuning skills.
- Strong knowledge of SingleStore cluster architecture and administration.
- Experience with large datasets high transaction volumes and high-concurrency workloads.
- Strong understanding of HA replication failover backup restore and DR.
- Advanced troubleshooting of CPU memory disk I/O network storage and database-level bottlenecks.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.
- Strong scripting and automation experience using Python Shell or similar technologies.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
- Strong understanding of database security access management and compliance.
- Experience managing databases in cloud and/or hybrid environments.
Enterprise-Level Expectations
The candidate must be capable of:
- Taking end-to-end ownership of critical database platforms.
- Supporting databases with strict availability performance and recovery SLAs.
- Handling high-severity production incidents and leading technical resolution.
- Performing deep-dive performance analysis rather than relying only on monitoring alerts.
- Designing solutions for scalability resilience and fault tolerance.
- Working with senior architects engineering leadership and application teams.
- Making sound technical decisions during critical production situations.
- Leading database migrations upgrades capacity expansions and major infrastructure changes.
- Establishing enterprise DBA standards and best practices.
- Acting as a SingleStore SME / technical authority for the organization.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with AWS Azure or GCP.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized database deployments.
- Experience with Kafka CDC ETL and real-time data pipelines.
- Experience with MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle or other enterprise database technologies.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana Datadog or equivalent.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
- Experience working in regulated or highly available enterprise environments.
- Relevant database/cloud certifications are an advantage.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is not just a SingleStore administrator but a seasoned Enterprise DBA who has managed mission-critical database platforms at scale and has strong hands-on expertise in SingleStore.
They should be comfortable working independently leading complex technical initiatives troubleshooting critical production issues and providing technical direction to engineering and DBA teams
