Sr Database Administrator - Production Reliability

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
  • Sunnyvale, CA
  • $100,000–$135,000 Per Year
2 days ago

Job Description

Role: Engineer

Required Skills: Oracle | PostgreSQL | MongoDB

Experience: 8 - 10 Years

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Apply By: 2026-12-07

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

Location: Austin, TX/ Sunnyvale, CA

Salary Range: $100,000 - $135,000 a year

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Numbers & Facts

LocationSunnyvale, CA
Salary$100,000–$135,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Capacity Managementunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
  • Continuous Integrationunmatched
  • Corrective Actionunmatched
  • Data Recoveryunmatched
  • Database Administrationunmatched
  • Database Programmingunmatched
  • Database Replicationunmatched
  • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
  • Failoverunmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)unmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Incident Managementunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • MongoDBunmatched
  • On Callunmatched
  • Oracleunmatched
  • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
  • PostgreSQLunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Production Supportunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Query Optimizationunmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
  • Replication and Remote Mirroringunmatched
  • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
  • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Software Patchesunmatched
  • Splunkunmatched
  • Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
  • Validation Testingunmatched

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