DBA - BB

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design and operate scalable, secure, and automated MySQL, PostgreSQL infrastructure on AWS using services such as RDS, or self-managed EC2 instances.

Champion a culture of automation over manual intervention, reducing repetitive tasks through Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform) and scripting (Python, Bash, Go).

Proactively identify areas of operational toil and implement automated solutions to reduce manual errors, improve efficiency, and increase engineering velocity.

Lead performance tuning at all levels queries, schema, indexes, and underlying systems ensuring low-latency, high-throughput access patterns.

Own the lifecycle and execution of major MySQL, PostgreSQL version upgrades, including planning, backward compatibility, rollback readiness, and automation of upgrade workflows.

Architect and manage scale-out strategies using replication, sharding, or middleware such as ProxySQL, Vitess, or Percona.

Implement efficient partitioning and data archival strategies to support long-term data retention, cost management, and compliance.

Ensure alignment with security and compliance standards (SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001), implementing encryption, role-based access, auditing, and data classification controls. Bring forth database security hardening recommendations and work with the stakeholders to implement and secure the systems.

Build observability into the database stack using tools like CloudWatch, PMM, or Prometheus/Grafana for real-time health insights and proactive alerting.

Support high-severity incident response, conduct RCA/postmortems, and lead improvements to prevent recurrence.

Mentor engineers across teams, set technical standards for DB schema architecture, DB operations, and advocate for reliability best practices. Work with multiple teams to identify existing opportunities to optimize and fine tune their queries, DB access patterns and the existing DB system infrastructure.