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Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability - Senior Engineer
 Tata Consultancy Services | |
$100,000 - $135,000
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 United States, California, Sunnyvale | |
 Oct 28, 2026 | |
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Job Description
Must Have: * 8+ years of experience in database engineering, administration, and production support. * Hands-on expertise in Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, including high availability, replication, clustering, patching, and upgrades. * Strong experience in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, capacity planning, backup, PITR, and disaster recovery. * Ability to monitor and troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and support on-call operations. * Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting or automation using Python, Shell, or equivalent tools. Good To Have * Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud managed database services. * Knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and database observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or ELK/OpenSearch. * Understanding ITIL processes and experience preparing runbooks, operational dashboards, and DR test reports. * Relevant database, cloud, or site reliability engineering certifications. Responsibility / Expectation * Administer and maintain highly available Oracle, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL production environments. * Perform database performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and capacity planning. * Monitor database health, replication, storage, connections, locks, and resource consumption, and resolve issues proactively. * Lead database incident triage, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions. * Automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, backup validation, recovery testing, and operational reporting. * Partner with application and platform teams on schema design, migrations, releases, security, and non-functional requirements. * Maintain database documentation, runbooks, DR evidence, and operational status updates for stakeholders. * Design and manage robust backup, point-in-time recovery (PITR), failover and DR strategies to guarantee strict Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) targets
Salary Range: $100,000 - $135,000 a year
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Function
TECHNOLOGY
Role
Senior Engineer
ID
436755
Skills
Oracle | PostgreSQL | MongoDB
Salary Range
$100,000 - $135,000 | |