Key skills
AzureJavaKubernetesOraclePostgresPythonSQLTerraformBashPowerShellHelmPostgreSQLDatadogGitPerformance OptimizationCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Drive performance optimization and operational excellence across Azure-managed PostgreSQL and Oracle environments—tuning SQL and improving data access patterns.
- Monitor database health, performance, and capacity using Datadog for alerting, SLO tracking, and trend analysis.
- Own backups, restores, and disaster recovery procedures; regularly validate recovery readiness through testing.
- Administer access controls and user provisioning in alignment with security and financial compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with developers to analyze and optimize SQL execution paths in the application’s data access layer using Datadog APM traces.
- Read and understand Java code to trace data access patterns and ensure tuning aligns with how the application interacts with the database.
- Partner with software engineers and architects during design and sprint planning to shape efficient relational data models, indexing approaches, and query strategies.
- Identify performance bottlenecks using database monitoring and work with developers to implement query rewrites and schema adjustments.
- Establish and track performance baselines for business-critical queries and implement anomaly detection.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience supporting relational databases (e.g. Postgres, Oracle).
- Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, Helm and Terraform for database changes, automation, and releases.
- Proficiency with Datadog (or similar observability tools) for performance monitoring and alerting across database and application layers.
- Ability to read and understand Java application code to trace data access patterns.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to partner effectively with engineering and infrastructure teams.
- Hands-on administration of Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including configuration, upgrades, and parameter tuning.
- Experience designing and operating high availability and disaster recovery (replication, failover, RPO/RTO), including regular testing.
- Strong performance tuning skills, including execution plan analysis (EXPLAIN), indexing strategy, query rewrites, and diagnosing locking/contention.
- Experience implementing database security best practices, including encryption, secrets management, role-based access, and audit logging.
- Ability to automate DBA workflows using Python, Bash, or PowerShell (maintenance, backup verification, provisioning, alerting).
- Comfort participating in an on-call rotation, leading incident triage, and writing post-incident reviews with corrective and preventive actions.
- Hands-on administration of Oracle Database including installation, configuration, upgrades, parameter tuning, and backups using RMAN.
- Experience with distributed databases, such as CockroachDB.
- Experience managing databases hosted on Kubernetes
Tech Stack
- Azure
- Java
- Kubernetes
- Oracle
- Postgres
- Python
- SQL
- Terraform
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this role at this time