Lead Database Administrator - Installation & Configuration

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the DBA team, providing technical direction, support, and mentorship.
• Manage installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching of database systems.
• Ensure database availability, security, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Perform performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization for mission-critical applications.
• Develop and maintain backup, recovery, and high availability (HA / DR) solutions.
• Monitor and analyze database performance to proactively resolve issues.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams for seamless integration.
• Establish and enforce standards, policies, and best practices for database administration.
• Plan and execute capacity planning and database scaling strategies.
• Maintain compliance with data security and governance Skills & Experience :
• 10 to 12 years of experience in Database Administration (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or mixed environments).
• Proven skills in performance tuning, clustering, replication, partitioning, and sharding.
• Expertise in backup / recovery tools, HA / DR strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Strong knowledge of database security, auditing, and encryption.
• Experience with monitoring, automation tools, and scripting (SQL, Shell, to Have :
• Experience with cloud databases (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL).
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Exposure to DevOps practices and CI / CD pipelines for database deployments.

(ref : hirist.tech)