DBA, India

Description

At AlgoSec, What you do matters!

Over 2,200 of the world’s leading organizations trust AlgoSec to help secure their most critical workloads across public cloud, private cloud, containers, and on-premises networks.

 Join our global team, securing application connectivity, anywhere.

We are seeking an experienced DBA to work closely with development teams, offering guidance and mentorship to enhance database design, performance, and stability, with a focus on optimizing capabilities in a SaaS environment.

Reporting to: R&D Director

Location: Gurgaon, India

Direct employment

Responsibilities:

• Review and approve development and testing design documents, ensuring they meet SaaS scalability and performance needs.
• Oversee performance testing, both in collaboration with a performance lab and independently, adjusting parameters to ensure fast and reliable responses for front-end SaaS applications.
• Contribute actively to conceptual database designs for new features, focusing on both back-end data organization and front-end accessibility for SaaS users.
• Participate in customer sessions to gather insights on real-world database usage and incidents.
• Ensure that the Data Analytics system integrates key information from the database, supporting SaaS business intelligence needs.
• Develop and maintain database documentation, including data standards, procedures, and metadata definitions, ensuring security and industry standard compliance with SaaS and on-premises data governance.
• Enhance the AlgoSec Knowledge Base (KB) with SaaS-focused best practices and solutions.
• Create training materials and deliver training sessions to development teams on database management.
• Develop, manage, and test backup and recovery plans, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for both on-premises and cloud-based SaaS deployments.
• Conduct capacity planning for databases to meet services scaling requirements.
• Regularly communicate with technical, application, and operations teams to ensure database integrity and security.
• Commission, install, and customize new applications to align with functional and security requirements, and develop a roadmap for upgrading third-party databases with a focus on functionality and security in a SaaS context. Act as lead figure in actual upgrades and migrations.
• Manage database security and disaster recovery, with specific attention to both on-premises and SaaS setups.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience as DBA in administrating and tuning RDS clusters or equivalent databases.
• Strong experience in database tuning (indexes, partitions, statistics) and performance troubleshooting, particularly in SaaS applications.
• Proficient with Linux and database management in a microservices architecture, commonly used in SaaS deployments.
• Experience in database management in a microservices architecture, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Hands-on experience with coding languages (e.g., Python, Bash, Java) for database automation in SaaS operations as well as on-premises.
• Can do attitude. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Very bright, fast learner, assumes ownership, independent and organized
• Innovative
• Excellent level of English

Advantages:

• Understanding of public cloud vendors replication techniques and data warehouse design in a SaaS environment.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery techniques, and scaling in SaaS ecosystems.

AlgoSec is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO), committed to creating a friendly, inclusive environment that is a pleasure to work in, and where there is an unbiased acceptance of others. AlgoSec believes that diversity and an inclusive company culture are key drivers of creativity, innovation, and performance.

Furthermore, a diverse workforce and the maintenance of an atmosphere that welcomes versatile perspectives will enhance our ability to fulfill our vision.