Database Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Database Engineering team, providing technical direction, mentoring, and performance management.
• Own database platform strategy across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and cloud databases.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available database architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.
• Lead database migration, modernization, performance, reliability, and automation initiatives.
• Establish standards for HA/DR, backup/recovery, monitoring, security, capacity planning, and database governance.
• Drive Database DevOps and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerShell, CI/CD, and Git.
• Monitor database performance, availability, scalability, costs, and operational KPIs.
• Collaborate with Application, Cloud, DevOps, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Manage production incidents, technical escalations, risks, vendors, and engineering priorities.
• Hire, mentor, and develop database engineers while driving engineering best practices and continuous improvement.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in database engineering, DBA, cloud database, or database architecture roles, including leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar database technologies.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud-native database services.
• Proven experience in database architecture, migration, modernization, HA/DR, performance tuning, and scalability.
• Strong knowledge of Always On, Data Guard, replication, backup/recovery, RPO/RTO, and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Python/PowerShell, CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, and Database DevOps.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, database security, IAM/RBAC, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience with automation, cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, governance, and compliance.
• Strong people management, technical leadership, stakeholder management, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.
• AWS/Azure/GCP, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Terraform certifications are an advantage.