Senior Database Administrator
First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026.
Role : Sr. Database Administrator - Mumbai/Thane - Engineering Team
Work from Office - Full-time
Are you passionate about building highly scalable and resilient database platforms?
Do you enjoy solving complex distributed systems and performance engineering challenges?
Are you excited to work on large-scale production environments handling TB-scale data?
If so, then we know exactly where you fit in.
Mandatory:
- One OLTP ( MySQL )
- One NoSQL (either MongoDB or Cassandra)
- Proficiency in any one programming language
How will we evaluate you? ( not limited to ):
1. Proven experience with InnoDB engine internals.
2. Proven experience with the MySQL query optimizer.
3. Automation mindset.
4. This is not a typical manual admin profile.
5. Proven database migration experience.
6. If you focus on details, it will be good for us to understand you.
7. Proven experience with database upgrades.
8. Say, 8 - 8.
9. Proven troubleshooting experience.
10. Experience working with data sizes in the TB range and large clusters (e.g., 20 - 50 nodes per cluster) is beneficial.
11. Good if you able to convert business use case to technical.
12. Proven experience with the WiredTiger engine.
13. Good understanding of sharding, partitioning, sharded clusters, replication, HA and DR.
We will evaluate based on these.
Preferred but not mandatory :
- Good understanding of HTAP solutions.
- Good understanding of OLAP ( LSM ) based databases.
- Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and containers.
- CloudSQL and RDS
What we don't need?:
- Just installation, uninstallation, database creation, or user management experience.
- A non-problem-solving attitude.
Why Netcore :
Being first is in our nature.
Netcore Cloud is the first and leading AI/ML-powered customer engagement and experience platform (CEE) that helps B2C brands increase engagement, conversions, revenue, and retention.
Our cutting-edge SaaS products enable personalized engagement across the entire customer journey and build amazing digital experiences for businesses of all sizes.
Netcore's Engineering team focuses on adoption, scalability, complex challenges, and fastest processing.
We use versatile technology stacks and distributed systems technologies including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, streaming platforms, and large-scale cloud-native architectures.
Netcore has the perfect combination of experience as well as an agile mindset.
We currently work with 6500+ enterprise brands across multiple countries and serve some of the fastest-growing digital businesses globally.
Headquartered in Mumbai, we have global footprints across multiple countries including the United States and Germany.
Being certified as a Great Place to Work for consecutive years reinforces Netcore's principle of being a people-centric company - where you will not be just an employee but a family member of the organization.
A career at Netcore is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to shape the future.
What's in it for you :
- Opportunity to work on massive-scale distributed systems and databases.
- Exposure to modern cloud-native and high-performance database architectures.
- Immense growth, continuous learning, and ownership of critical systems.
- Work with some of the most innovative engineering minds in the industry.
- Open culture where innovation and ideas are encouraged.
- Opportunity to solve challenging real-world scalability and reliability problems.
- Knowledge-sharing sessions, hackathons, and collaborative engineering culture.
Skills
DBA, DBA Support, OLTP, NoSQL, MySQL, Data Migration, OLAP, Database Performance Tuning, InnoDB