Senior Database Administrator

Position Overview:

Cloud Kinetics is looking for a Sr Database Administrator to join our ProServ PoD (Practice on Demand) team. In this role, you will be deployed on AWS Professional Services engagements in India, working hands-on to administer, optimize, and maintain cloud-native database environments for enterprise customers on AWS. You will serve as a key database operations specialist, ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and availability of mission-critical database workloads running on Amazon Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and optimize Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB instances in production AWS environments.
• Manage database parameter groups, option groups, instance sizing, storage scaling, Multi-AZ configurations, and read replica deployments.
• Monitor database engine health, resource utilization, and operational metrics using Amazon CloudWatch, Performance Insights, and Enhanced Monitoring.
• Plan and execute homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations using AWS DMS and AWS SCT.
• Design and implement automated backup strategies and disaster recovery procedures.
• Implement AWS database security best practices including encryption, IAM database authentication, and VPC network isolation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-8 years of hands-on database administration experience across relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• 3+ years of direct experience administering AWS-managed database services in production environments.

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Database - Specialty (required or in progress).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (required or in progress).
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (preferred).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oracle / SQL Server DBA Background
• DynamoDB Operations
• Automation & Scripting
• Performance Insights & Advanced Monitoring