Rackspace

Cloud DBA III - IN (PostgreSQL)

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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EmployerRackspace
LocationIndia
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFull time
Employer posted17 Sep 2026

Role - Database Reliability Engineer III/II - IN

Location - Work From Office - Hyderabad

Shift - Ok to work in 24x7 rotational shift

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced DBRE to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud DBaaS platform across:

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Platform

This role combines deep database expertise with SRE principles to build highly available, automated, and resilient database platforms. The DBRE Lead will drive operational standards, automation frameworks, and reliability engineering practices across distributed cloud environments

🔹 What We’re Looking For

6-10+ years as PostgreSQL DBA

Strong multi-cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP – at least two)

Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise

Automation-first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)

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Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred

For this role following mandatory skills are typically required:

1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills

Primary Database: PostgreSQL

Secondary Database: MySQL, SQLServer

Database Backup & Recovery: Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.

Performance Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.

Database Security: User management, roles, access control, and auditing.

2. Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge (DBaaS)

Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Cosmos DB, SQL Database), GCP (Cloud SQL, Firestore).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.

Kubernetes & Containers: Running databases in containers (like Kubernetes).

Observability Tools: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Database Migration: Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.

Database Scaling: Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments.

3. SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering)

Incident Management: Handling database outages, incident response, and on-call rotations.

Monitoring and Alerting: Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensuring uptime and performance targets.

Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions.

4 . Soft Skills

Communication Skills: Clear communication with stakeholders and engineering teams.

Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot complex database issues under pressure.

Collaboration: Working closely with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

More on Rackspace Technology

Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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