Senior Database Administrator

About the company:

We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office.

We are creating this position because the workload has grown. This hire will own performance tuning, high availability and restore testing for our core business systems. We hire in India through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

What you'll be doing:

• Set up and maintain Always On availability groups, Data Guard or streaming replication
• Control access with roles, least privilege and audited service accounts
• Tune queries, indexes and statistics using execution plans and Query Store
• Upgrade major database versions with minimal downtime
• Respond to after-hours database incidents on a rotating schedule
• Install, configure and patch SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL or MySQL instances
• Monitor databases with SolarWinds DPA, Redgate SQL Monitor or pgwatch and act on alerts
• Manage backups and run regular restore tests against RPO and RTO targets

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on database administration experience
• Scripting with PowerShell, Bash or Python
• Strong T-SQL, PL/SQL or PL/pgSQL

Compensation and benefits:

₹36,00,000 - ₹43,00,000 per annum

• Monthly internet allowance
• Home office setup budget
• Equity
• Stock options

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Jefferson Business Technology.