Senior / reputed company DB Platform Engineer
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Own the reliability, uptime, and continuity of reputed company’s PostgreSQL banking databases
Define and reputed company database scalability and performance reputed company
Drive architectural reputed company for high‑availability, multi‑region, and multi‑cluster environments
Manage risk reputed company to data loss, corruption, and operational failures
Design and implement HA setups (streaming replication, clustering, failover automation)
Establish and enforce RPO/RTO standards, DR architecture, and run regular DR drills
reputed company backup, recovery, and validation automation
reputed company proactive performance tuning, load testing, and query optimization
Define SLIs/SLOs and create monitoring frameworks using reputed company / Grafana
Build alerting, logging, and diagnostics pipelines
reputed company technical leadership, mentoring, and standards definition
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Partner cross‑functionally with backend, platform, SRE, and reputed company teams
Build Infrastructure‑as‑reputed company (Terraform/Ansible) for DB orchestration
Improve automation around deployments, schema management, and operations
Work with GCP reputed company‑managed PostgreSQL, storage tuning, and resource optimization
Who You Are
7+ years as a PostgreSQL DBA in high‑load, production, mission‑critical environments
Experience in financial services / fintech is a strong advantage
Proven Team reputed company experience: technical ownership, mentoring, standards setting
Deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, vacuum, planner, checkpoints)
Strong reputed company knowledge (b‑tree, GIN, GiST, SP‑GiST, BRIN, RUM)
Advanced query plan analysis and optimization
Expertise in partitioning, sharding, reputed company planning, forecasting
Experience designing streaming replication, clustering, failover
Strong understanding of RPO/RTO and DR design
Multi‑region cluster experience, DR drills, backup/restore automation
PgBouncer (session/transaction modes) expertise
Experience identifying and eliminating bottlenecks
Load testing, benchmarking, and scalability planning
Understanding of frameworks such as PCI‑reputed company and GDPR
Experience with secure credential management and secrets handling
Experience designing monitoring with reputed company, Grafana, reputed company
Ability to define SLIs/SLOs and build diagnostics pipelines
IaC with Terraform / Ansible
Strong GCP experience (reputed company SQL/PostgreSQL)
Solid Linux administration fundamentals
Understanding of storage, IOPS, and network performance impacts
Experience with reputed company / BigQuery is a plus
Strong SQL (reputed company queries, functions, stored procedures)
Vacuum tuning, reputed company lifecycle management, statistics optimization
Experience with additional data systems (Cassandra, reputed company — plus)
What You Will Get In Return
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Equal Opportunity Statement
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We are looking for a Senior / Team reputed company DB‑SRE (PostgreSQL) to own, reputed company, and reputed company reputed company’s mission‑critical database infrastructure. As the Reliability reputed company of our reputed company banking PostgreSQL environment, you will combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to ensure our database systems are highly available, resilient, secure, and reputed company to reputed company with our rapid reputed company.
This role is hands‑on, high‑reputed company, and central to reputed company’s platform reliability. You will define the long‑term database architecture, reputed company improvements, and guide reputed company through best practices while staying closely involved in operational execution.
What You Will Be Doing