Database Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 3, 2026.
Role : Database Engineer (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
Responsibilities :
- Respond to issues within the Service Level Objective during your assigned on-call rotation.
- Expertise in supporting at least one of the technologies like PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Expertise in caching technologies like Redis.
- Expertise in writing software in python/ Shell/ Ansible (or) any other, to improve the reliability, scalability and performance of client's infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot broken systems and services issues and build new systems.
- Document the services we run and how to manage them.
- Monitor, measure and improve the performance and state-awareness of our systems.
- Locate and deprecate unused services.
- Re-deploy, reschedule services that under-utilize their planned resources every quarter.
- Complete, Update or Polish 4 Runbook/SOPs/Design Documents.
Requirements :
- Bachelor's / master's degree in computer science or information technology.
- 10+ Years experience in database/ Streaming technologies.
- Expert in database technology like PostgreSQL / MySQL.
- Expert in database and SQL tuning and expert troubleshooter.
- Strong Shell, Python and SQL scripting to automate DB related jobs.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, consul, Splunk.
- Proven ability to work independently or as an integral member of a team and has excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with low level debugging tools: strace, tcpdump, gdb, lsof and netstat.
- Write a simple piece of software in any language that does anything.
Shift timings: 8 AM to 4 PM (IST) and during on call rotation timings will change.
Skills
DBA, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Shell Scripting, Streaming Protocols, Observability Services, Monitoring Tools, Database Performance Tuning, Redis