JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Lead Senior Production Support / Operations Engineer

Education: Any Graduate

Experience: 8+years

Job Location: Mumbai

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly Senior Production Support / Operations Engineer to represent and operationally support our in-house monitoring and observability platform across enterprise database environments.

This role acts as the critical operational bridge between:

The in-house monitoring product development and QE team(s),
Internal ITSM/ticketing teams using ServiceNow,
Multiple enterprise DBA organizations across:

Oracle Database
Open-source database platforms (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.)
Microsoft SQL Server

The ideal candidate combines strong operational troubleshooting skills, production support leadership, monitoring expertise, incident coordination capabilities, and excellent cross-team collaboration skills in large-scale enterprise environments.

This is a senior leadership position: the candidate must bring substantial experience leading Production Support Engineers, combined with exceptional communication skills for direct, confident engagement with customers and senior stakeholders of in-house management.

Key Responsibilities

Production Operations & Monitoring Support

Provide operational ownership and production support for the in-house enterprise monitoring platform.
Monitor health, performance, alerting quality, and operational stability of monitoring services.
Analyze monitoring gaps, false positives, missed alerts, and operational inefficiencies.
Ensure monitoring coverage across Oracle, Open-source, and SQL Server database environments.

Incident & Escalation Management

Act as the operational point-of-contact during production incidents involving monitoring failures, alerting gaps, or infrastructure issues.
Coordinate incident triage across:

DBA teams,
Monitoring development teams,
Infrastructure teams,
Service management teams.

Drive bridge calls and ensure effective stakeholder communication during critical outages.
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident operational reviews.

ServiceNow & Ticket Workflow Coordination

Work with ServiceNow for:

Operational escalations,
Service requests.

Review ticket quality and ensure operational accuracy of issue classification and routing.
Improve ticket workflows between DBA teams and monitoring platform support teams.
Collaborate with internal support organizations to streamline escalation processes.

Cross-Functional DBA Collaboration

Collaborate closely with enterprise DBA teams supporting:

Oracle Database
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Apache Cassandra
Microsoft SQL Server
Cloud services (AWS, AZURE, GCP)

Understand operational monitoring requirements specific to each database technology.
Work with DBAs to validate alert thresholds, event correlation, and monitoring accuracy.
Serve as the operational liaison between DBAs and monitoring team developers and QE.

Operational Excellence & Reliability Engineering

Identify recurring operational pain points and recommend automation opportunities.
Improve alert quality, event correlation, and monitoring reliability.
Participate in operational readiness reviews for new monitoring features.
Help define operational standards, playbooks, and escalation procedures.

Monitoring & Observability Engineering

Support enterprise observability initiatives involving:

Metrics,
Events,
Alerting,
Dashboards,
Health monitoring,
Incident correlation.

Work with both commercial and in-house monitoring systems.
Analyse operational telemetry to identify systemic reliability concerns.

DevOps & CI/CD Enablement

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines.
Implement deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling updates).
Advocate for reliability-focused design patterns.

Security & Compliance

Ensure infrastructure adheres to security standards and compliance requirements.
Participate in vulnerability assessments and remediation.

Required Technical Skills

Strong production support and operations experience in enterprise environments.
Substantial experience leading Production Support Engineers, in a senior/lead or team-management capacity.
Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Substantial, practical hands-on experience with both Windows and Linux operating systems, and sound working familiarity with Databricks and Microsoft Fabric for analytics workloads.
Expertise in monitoring & observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or in-house tools).
Working knowledge of:

ServiceNow
Incident workflows,
Escalation management,
Operational support models.

Exposure to database technologies including:

Oracle Database
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
NoSQL ecosystems preferred.

Strong understanding of:

Windows and Linux systems,
Infrastructure monitoring,
Alerting concepts,
Production operations.

Experience supporting 24x7 enterprise production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with in-house monitoring or observability product teams.
Familiarity with SRE/DevOps operational practices.
Exposure to enterprise event management systems.
Knowledge of automation/scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell).
Experience handling high-severity production incidents.

Critical Non-Technical Skills

An ideal candidate must demonstrate:

Operational Intuition

Ability to detect operational anomalies early.
Strong troubleshooting instinct and pattern recognition.

Fearless Communication

Ability to speak confidently during incidents and escalations.
Comfortable engaging customers and senior stakeholders of in-house management, along with multiple technical teams.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to present operational status and risk directly to customers and senior leadership with clarity and confidence.

Cross-Team Collaboration

Ability to coordinate effectively across DBA teams, support organizations, and development groups.

Calmness Under Pressure

Structured decision-making during high-severity incidents.

Ownership Mindset

Drives issues to closure rather than relying solely on assigned ownership boundaries.

Investigative Curiosity

Continuously analyses why operational failures occur and how they can be prevented.
Substantial track record leading, mentoring, and developing Production Support Engineers.
Sets the standard for operational excellence and coaches junior/mid-level engineers toward it.
Acts as an escalation point and mentor for less experienced engineers during high-severity incidents.
Team Leadership & Mentorship

Preferred Qualifications

Relevant Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
Familiarity with SRE/DevOps operational practices.
Familiarity with Databricks and Fabric domain.
Exposure to enterprise event management systems.
Knowledge of automation/scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell).

ABOUT US

Datavail is a leading provider of data management, application development, analytics, and cloud services, with more than 1,000 professionals helping clients build and manage applications and data via a world-class tech-enabled delivery platform and software solutions across all leading technologies. For more than 17 years, Datavail has worked with thousands of companies spanning different industries and sizes, and is an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation (Azure), an Oracle Partner, and a MySQL Partner.

ABOUT THE TEAM

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