Senior Database Administrator

About Sakon : Sakon (

www.sakon.com

) simplifies how businesses around the world Understand, Manage and Transform their Communications and Cloud Ecosystems. One of the world’s top SaaS companies in our markets, Sakon is a leader in managing communication services and costs, mobility, and cloud services, Sakon has 200 large enterprise customers spanning virtually every country across the globe. Sakon is headquartered in Concord, MA with additional locations across North America, Europe, and India.

Key Responsibilities

Database Architecture & Optimization

Design, implement, and optimize scalable multi-tenant relational database architectures (MS SQL Server / MySQL).

Drive performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies to ensure low-latency operations at scale.

Review and improve data models, normalization, and partitioning strategies.

Security, Backup, and Compliance

Implement and enforce robust backup & disaster recovery strategies.

Define and maintain data security, access control policies, and encryption-at-rest / in-transit best practices.

Work with DevOps and InfoSec teams to support compliance (e.g., GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA depending on your product).

Automation & Monitoring

Automate database provisioning, backup, maintenance, and monitoring using tools like Ansible or custom scripts.

Set up proactive monitoring and alerting for replication lags, disk usage, slow queries, and deadlocks.

Data Lifecycle Management

Collaborate with engineering to define data retention policies and archival strategies.

Design efficient data migration, versioning, and upgrade processes during product releases.

Collaboration & Reviews

Participate in code reviews for SQL queries and schema changes.

Work closely with backend developers, DevOps, and product owners to support application performance, data pipelines, and analytics.

Incident Management

Troubleshoot production incidents (high CPU, connection errors, lock waits, replication delays, etc.).

Support high availability (HA) and failover strategies (active-passive, clustering, read replicas, etc.).

Requirements

Must-Have

7+ years of experience managing production-grade RDBMS

Proven expertise in query tuning, index design, and performance diagnostics.

Strong command of SQL, stored procedures, triggers, views, and functions.

Hands-on with replication, backups, failover, and HA architecture.

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS databases, especially schema-per-tenant or shared schema models.

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and DBaaS solutions.

Proficient in automation scripts using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

Nice-to-Have

Exposure to NoSQL or time-series databases like Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB.

Experience working with ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Hibernate) and ETL / data warehouse systems.

Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Interview Process :

Level 1 operations / Technical Round

Level 2 operations / Technical Round

HRBP Round

Consent : We will be using your resume for job applications open with us for a full-time contract and will save them for future reference.