Database Lead

Job Title: Database Lead. Position type: Full Time. Work Location: Bangalore. Working style: Hybrid. Required education and certifications critical for the role: Any Graduate or Post-Graduate (full time). Required years of experience: 5-6 years of relevant experience.

Job Summary

General description of role: Defines end-to-end infrastructure architecture - compute, storage, network, and cloud - for Aons global technology estate, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy and standards worldwide.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead database architecture, capacity planning, and technology selection (RDBMS/NoSQL)
• Own database performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and backup/recovery strategy
• Establish database security, access control, and compliance standards (encryption, auditing, data masking)
• Lead and mentor a team of database engineers/administrators
• Oversee database migrations, upgrades, and patching cycles with minimal downtime
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams on data model reviews and query optimization
• Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs for database availability and performance
• Evaluate emerging database technologies (cloud-managed databases, NewSQL) for adoption

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of database administration/engineering experience, with 2+ years in a lead role
• Deep expertise in at least one major RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) plus exposure to NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Cloud database certification (AWS/Azure/GCP database specialty) preferred

Technical Skills

• RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL administration and tuning
• NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar
• High availability/DR: clustering, replication, log shipping, backup/restore tooling
• Cloud-managed database services (RDS, Cloud SQL, Azure SQL/Cosmos DB)
• Database security: encryption at rest/in transit, auditing, data masking
• Scripting/automation: SQL, PL/SQL/T-SQL, Python or shell scripting

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