About The Opportunity
We are a technology services organisation operating in the Enterprise Data Infrastructure & Database Engineering sector, delivering scalable, resilient database platforms for mission-critical applications across finance, e-commerce, and SaaS. This on-site role is based in India and focuses on architecting and operating large-scale MySQL ecosystems with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and automation.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design and own the end-to-end MySQL database architecture for production serviceshigh availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Diagnose and resolve complex performance issues using query analysis, indexing strategies, schema redesign, and configuration tuning to meet SLAs.
- Implement and maintain replication topologies, clustering solutions, automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and DR runbooks.
- Build automation and DevOps workflows for provisioning, patching, scaling, and patch rollouts using infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools.
- Introduce observability and alertingdefine SLOs, implement monitoring dashboards, and automate remediation for common failure modes.
- Collaborate with application, platform, and security teams to define capacity, security hardening, compliance, and change-control processes.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- MySQL
- InnoDB
- Query Optimization
- MySQL Replication
- High Availability
- Backup and Recovery
- Linux
- Percona Toolkit
Preferred
- AWS RDS
- Percona XtraDB Cluster
- Terraform
Additional Qualifications
- Proven track record as a MySQL DBA / Database Architect managing production deployments at scale.
- Strong Linux system administration and scripting capability (Bash, Python, or similar) for automation and incident response.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability stacks, capacity planning, and disaster recovery strategies.
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- Hands-on ownership of critical database platforms and opportunity to shape architecture across products.
- Collaborative engineering culture with emphasis on automation, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.
- On-site role with exposure to cross-functional teams and enterprise-grade deployments across India.
To apply, please be prepared to discuss past production incidents you've handled, decisions you made to improve availability/performance, and examples of automation you've delivered.
Skills: query optimization,innodb,mysql_dba,backup and recovery,high availability,mysql,linux
