About Phenom :

At Phenom, our purpose is to help a billion people find the right job.

Were a global HR tech company delivering AI-powered talent experience solutions for enterprise organizations.

Our intelligent platform helps companies attract, engage, and retain top talent.

Role Summary :

We are looking for a Principal DBOps Engineer to lead the strategy, performance, automation, and scalability of our database systems.

You will be the go-to expert for everything related to database operations, including reliability, observability, automation, and infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments.

This is a hands-on leadership role with strong influence on architecture, security, and database lifecycle management.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and manage highly available, scalable, and secure database architectures across production and non-production environments.

- Automate database provisioning, monitoring, backup, and recovery workflows using DevOps tools and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

- Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure database performance, reliability, and data integrity.

- Lead incident response and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for any database-related issues and outages.

- Guide the team on best practices around schema management, indexing strategies, and query performance.

- Mentor and lead a team of DB Engineers and collaborate cross-functionally with SREs, DevOps, and Cloud Architects.

- Establish data governance, auditing, and compliance protocols across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.

- Evaluate and implement database observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

- Optimize costs through usage monitoring, capacity planning, and right-sizing of cloud-based DB infrastructure.

Skills & Qualifications :

- Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

- 10+ years of experience in database administration and operations in high-scale production environments.

- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar databases (relational and NoSQL).

- Proven experience in cloud-native DBOps (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL, etc.)

- Strong scripting experience (Python, Bash, or Go) and use of automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform).

- Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm).

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for DB changes and automated testing (Liquibase/Flyway).

- Solid understanding of database security, data masking, encryption, and access control models.

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to Have :

- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Experience with multi-region replication and disaster recovery design.

- Contributions to open-source DB tools or platforms.

Why Phenom?

- Work with cutting-edge technologies in a high-impact role.

- Be part of a fast-growing product company solving real-world problems at scale.

- Culture focused on innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration.