Key Responsibilities :

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents related to AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Aurora PostgreSQL, and associated cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.

- Gauge the severity, urgency, and business impact of database and infrastructure incidents, driving timely resolution and stakeholder communication.

- Manage, maintain, and enhance database infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

- Design, implement, and support automation solutions for database provisioning, patching, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, and operational processes.

- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for production issues and recommend permanent corrective actions to improve platform stability, performance, scalability, and resilience.

- Collaborate with application, cloud, security, and DevOps teams to support database-related requirements and ensure adherence to organizational standards.

- Optimize database performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, capacity planning, and proactive monitoring.

- Manage and support AWS services related to database platforms, including CloudWatch, SNS, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Lambda, and other relevant services.

- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, backup, recovery, and security controls for database environments.

- Participate in database migrations, version upgrades, and cloud modernization initiatives.

- Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities for automation, operational excellence, and cost optimization.

- Collaborate with global and cross-functional teams to ensure efficient operation, support, and delivery of database platform services.

Required Experience & Skills :

- 4 - 7 years of hands-on experience managing relational database platforms, preferably Aurora Postgres, RDS PostgreSQL and MySQL.

- Strong experience managing AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL environments.

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.

- Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible.

- Strong understanding of database architecture, indexing, query optimization, execution plans, performance tuning, backup and recovery concepts.

- Good understanding of database objects including schemas, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, users, roles, and permissions.

- Experience performing database upgrades, migrations, patching, and disaster recovery activities.

- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services including IAM, CloudWatch, SNS, KMS, VPC, Security Groups, Lambda, and Secrets Manager.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform incident analysis and root cause investigations.

- Knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools for database and infrastructure monitoring.

- Understanding of change management, release management, and ITIL-based operational practices.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global team environment.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Candidates with experience in the following areas will have an added advantage :

1. AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Database Specialty, or equivalent).

2. Knowledge of Python or other scripting/programming languages for automation.

3. Experience with Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD tools.

4. Familiarity with Jira, ServiceNow, and Agile delivery methodologies.

5. Exposure to database security, encryption, auditing, and compliance controls.

6. Experience supporting large-scale enterprise database environments.

7. Knowledge of NoSQL databases and modern cloud-native architectures.

8. Understanding of cost optimization and capacity planning within AWS environments.