Database Reliability Manager
Desired Experience Range: 12 - 16 years
Location of Requirement: Bangalore
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DBRE team managing complex systems, infrastructure, and applications.
- Define and communicate the team’s vision and mission, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and technical excellence.
- Architect and oversee database infrastructure across on-premise, cloud (AWS, Azure), and hybrid environments.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging database technologies, tools, and automation platforms.
- Design and review solutions for backups, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and performance optimisation.
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and proactive issue resolution.
- Collaborate with application engineering, cloud DevOps, and security teams to deliver scalable and secure solutions.
Primary Skills
- Experience with additional DBMS platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with major database platforms including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Snowflake.
- Proven experience managing production databases in both on-premises and cloud environments (AWS RDS, Azure Managed DBs).
- Demonstrated success in leading and developing technical teams in fast-paced, matrixed environments.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting to executive audiences.
- Proficiency in programming and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or Ruby.
- Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation).
- Experience working in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with a solid understanding of web application infrastructure.
- Proven ability to manage and optimize team budgets and resources.