Core Database Administrator + APPS DBA

Job Title- Core Database Administrator + APPS DBA

Exp- 4-7 Yrs

Location- Bangalore

Immediate joiners preferred

Description 

Track 1: Intermediate DBA (PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server, cloud-agnostic) + EBS DBA

Role Summary

An Intermediate DBA manages, tunes, secures, and troubleshoots relational database systems across on-prem and cloud environments. This role sits between junior (mostly reactive, guided work) and senior (architecture, mentoring, capacity planning) expect hands-on ownership of multiple databases with moderate independence.
Also have EBS / APPS DBA knowledge.

Core Responsibilities

Install, configure, and maintain PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server instances

Design and implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies

Monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and tune queries/indexes

Manage user access, roles, and security policies

Implement and maintain replication and high availability (HA) setups

Perform routine maintenance: vacuuming, index rebuilds, statistics updates

Manage database migrations and version upgrades

Write and optimize complex SQL queries and stored procedures

Support cloud-hosted databases (AWS/Azure/GCP) provisioning, scaling, monitoring

Collaborate with dev teams on schema design and query optimization

Maintain documentation and runbooks; participate in on-call rotation

Required Skills by Database

PostgreSQL

Architecture: MVCC, WAL, background writer, autovacuum

EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE and query plan reading

Indexing: B-tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN — when to use each

Backup tools: pg_dump, pg_basebackup, WAL archiving, PITR

Replication: streaming (sync/async), logical replication, pg_stat_replication

Connection pooling: PgBouncer

Extensions: pg_stat_statements, PostGIS (if relevant), pgcrypto

Roles, privileges, GRANT / REVOKE, row-level security

Partitioning (declarative, range/list/hash)

Tuning params: shared_buffers, work_mem, maintenance_work_mem, effective_cache_size
MySQL