SapidBlue Technologies - Senior Database Administrator - Amazon RDS

Experience : 8+ years (3+ years with AWS RDS).

Location : Gurugram.

Department : Cloud / Infrastructure / DevOps.

Role Summary :

Seeking an experienced Senior DBA to manage and optimize AWS RDS and Aurora environments.

The role involves ensuring high availability, performance, security, and cost efficiency across multi-engine RDS deployments (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle).

Key Responsibilities :

- Administer and tune RDS/Aurora databases for performance, reliability, and security.

- Manage backups, PITR, replication, and cross-region DR setups.

- Automate provisioning, scaling, and patching using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.

- Monitor and optimize using Performance Insights, CloudWatch, and custom dashboards.

- Enforce encryption, IAM roles, and compliance standards (CIS, SOC2, HIPAA).

- Collaborate with DevOps and application teams on schema design and CI/CD integration.

- Drive cost optimization via rightsizing, reserved instances, and storage tuning.

Required Skills :

- Strong SQL expertise (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server).

- Deep knowledge of AWS RDS, Aurora, and DMS.

- Hands-on with performance tuning, replication, and failover.

- Experience with Terraform, Python/Bash scripting, and CloudWatch monitoring.

- Solid grasp of security, IAM, and encryption in AWS.

Nice to Have :

- AWS Certified Database Specialty or Solutions Architect cert.

- Experience with Aurora Serverless v2 and multi-region DR.

- Familiarity with Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.