Database Administrator Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, administration, and maintenance of enterprise database environments to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Manage and optimize relational and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Monitor database performance, identify bottlenecks, optimize SQL queries, and implement indexing, partitioning, and tuning strategies.
• Develop and maintain database backup, recovery, replication, high-availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Establish database security policies, access controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance procedures to protect sensitive information.
• Lead database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning activities.
• Manage cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure SQL Database, and Google Cloud SQL.
• Automate routine database administration tasks using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Define database architecture, standards, best practices, naming conventions, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot complex database issues, lead root-cause analysis, and manage critical production incidents.
• Collaborate with application developers, DevOps engineers, infrastructure teams, data engineers, and security teams to ensure efficient database integration.
• Plan database capacity, storage utilization, resource allocation, and infrastructure scalability based on business requirements.
• Implement database monitoring, alerting, performance reporting, and preventive maintenance processes.
• Lead database migration projects, technology upgrades, cloud adoption initiatives, and modernization programs.
• Manage database access provisioning, change management, audit requirements, and operational documentation.
• Mentor database administrators, assign tasks, review technical work, and establish team performance standards.
• Evaluate new database technologies and tools to improve operational efficiency, scalability, security, and cost optimization.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 5 to 10+ years of experience in database administration, database engineering, or database operations, with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong hands-on expertise in one or more enterprise database platforms, such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, query execution plans, indexing, partitioning, database design, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience implementing database backup and recovery, replication, clustering, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience managing production database environments, critical incidents, root-cause analysis, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Familiarity with cloud database services across AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency in database automation and scripting using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of database security, encryption, identity and access management, auditing, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with database migrations, upgrades, patch management, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization.
• Knowledge of database monitoring and observability tools, configuration management, CI/CD practices, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to develop database standards, operational procedures, technical documentation, and disaster recovery plans.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, mentoring, and team leadership capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate with application, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and security teams to deliver reliable database services.