Database Administrator

• Administer high availability‑ setups in CloudSQL.*
• Performance tuning: indexing, partitioning, query tuning, load balancing and resource sizing.
• Cost optimisation for Cloud SQL and BigQuery and lifecycle policies.
• Troubleshoot performance and incidents; lead incident response, MTTR ownership, RCA and continuous improvements.
• Provide 2nd-line DBA support: own and resolve escalated database incidents and requests.
• Backup, restore and disaster recovery: author and practice DR plans, run restore drills, validate backups and enforce retention.
• Security and compliance: manage IAM/ACLs, encryption (at rest/in transit), secrets management, access reviews and audit logging.
• Execute database upgrades and change management: plan/coordinate upgrades with rollback plans and compatibility testing.
• Automate as much as possible: IaC (Terraform/Deployment Manager), CI/CD for schema and infra changes, automated remediation and runbooks.
• Capacity planning - forecasting growth.
• Maintaining, monitoring and observability of database solutions; own dashboards, SLOs, logging, metrics and actionable alerts.
• Cost and resource governance: tagging, quota controls, cost monitoring and chargeback recommendations.
• Mentoring and documentation: maintain runbooks, knowledge base, and coach engineers on DB best practices.
• Vendor/third‑party management: manage managed‑service support relationships and SLAs.

Senior Database Administrator, DBA

SQL Database Administrator

Senior Database Administrator