About the job :

Netcore Cloud is a global AI-first Martech company helping brands acquire, engage, and retain customers through intelligent, personalized experiences. We operate at massive scale across 40+ countries, powering billions of customer interactions every day. Our engineering teams solve some of the most complex data and infrastructure challenges in the industry - and we're looking for exceptional people to lead the way.

About the Role :

We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Database Engineering to own and evolve our entire database ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role that goes beyond operations - you will define the long-term database strategy, drive architectural decisions, lead a high-performing team, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient across our multi-cloud environment (GCP & AWS).

What You'll Do :

Strategic & Architectural Leadership :

- Define and execute a long-term database strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, resilience, and security.

- Lead all architectural decisions across database solutions with a security-by-design approach across GCP and AWS.

- Drive aggressive cost optimization strategies and provide regular reporting on efficiency and savings.

- Research and evaluate emerging database technologies to modernize our stack and drive upgrade/consolidation initiatives.

- Proactively forecast capacity needs to support growing user base, transaction volumes, and data loads.

Operational Excellence & Governance :

- Own end-to-end management, health, and performance of all production and non-production database environments.

- Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for proactive issue resolution.

- Champion automation across provisioning, patching, configuration, and routine maintenance.

- Own database security - encryption (at-rest & in-transit), IAM/RBAC policies, vulnerability management, audits, and hardening.

- Act as the final escalation point for complex performance issues and deep-dive tuning across diverse database systems.

- Architect and regularly test robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans.

Team Leadership & Collaboration :

- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DBAs and Database Engineers.

- Partner closely with Development, DevOps, Security, and Product teams for seamless application delivery.

- Champion DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy regulations.

- Communicate database strategy, risks, and performance metrics clearly to executive leadership.

What We're Looking For :

- Experience : 12-15+ years in database engineering/administration, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in high-scale, 24x7 environments.

- Polyglot Database Expertise : Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra), Columnar/Analytics (Vertica, Druid), Search (Elasticsearch).

- Deep expertise in database security - encryption, network security, RBAC/IAM, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, SOC 2 & ISO 27001.

- Proven experience managing databases in multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) with a strong track record in cost optimization.

- Strong background in architectural design - secure, scalable, highly available database systems.

- Strong automation mindset - Python, Bash scripting; experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools preferred.

- Expertise in observability tools - Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring solutions.

- Exceptional leadership and communication skills.

Why Join Netcore?

- Immense growth and continuous learning opportunities.

- Solve complex engineering problems at massive scale.

- Work with top industry talent and global brands.

- Open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation and ownership.