Head- DBA

Job Title: Head of Database Engineering Location:Mumbai

Experience: 1215+ Years Employment Type: Full-Time

About Netcore Cloud

Netcore Cloud is a global AI-first Martech company helping brands acquire, engage, and retain customers through intelligent, personalized experiences. We operate at massive scale across 40+ countries, powering billions of customer interactions every day. Our engineering teams solve some of the most complex data and infrastructure challenges in the industry and we're looking for exceptional people to lead the way.

About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned and strategic Head of Database Engineering to own and evolve our entire database ecosystem. This is a senior leadership role that goes beyond operations you will define the long-term database strategy, drive architectural decisions, lead a high-performing team, and ensure our systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient across our multi-cloud environment (GCP & AWS).

If you thrive in high-scale, 24x7 production environments and love solving hard problems at the intersection of performance, security, and reliability this role is for you.

What You'll Do

Strategic & Architectural Leadership

• Define and execute a long-term database strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, resilience, and security
• Lead all architectural decisions across database solutions with a security-by-design approach across GCP and AWS
• Drive aggressive cost optimization strategies and provide regular reporting on efficiency and savings
• Research and evaluate emerging database technologies to modernize our stack and drive upgrade/consolidation initiatives
• Proactively forecast capacity needs to support growing user base, transaction volumes, and data loads

Operational Excellence & Governance

• Own end-to-end management, health, and performance of all production and non-production database environments
• Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for proactive issue resolution
• Champion automation across provisioning, patching, configuration, and routine maintenance
• Own database security encryption (at-rest & in-transit), IAM/RBAC policies, vulnerability management, audits, and hardening
• Act as the final escalation point for complex performance issues and deep-dive tuning across diverse database systems
• Architect and regularly test robust backup, restore, and disaster recovery plans

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DBAs and Database Engineers
• Partner closely with Development, DevOps, Security, and Product teams for seamless application delivery
• Champion DevSecOps practices and ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and data privacy regulations
• Communicate database strategy, risks, and performance metrics clearly to executive leadership

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 1215+ years in database engineering/administration, with at least 5 years in a leadership role in high-scale, 24x7 environments
• Polyglot Database Expertise:Relational: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra
• Columnar/Analytics: Vertica, Druid
• Search: Elasticsearch
• Deep expertise in database security encryption, network security, RBAC/IAM, vulnerability scanning, audit logging, SOC 2 & ISO 27001
• Proven experience managing databases in multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS) with a strong track record in cost optimization
• Strong background in architectural design secure, scalable, highly available database systems
• Strong automation mindset Python, Bash scripting; experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools preferred
• Expertise in observability tools Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native monitoring solutions
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills able to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Why Join Netcore?

• Immense growth and continuous learning opportunities
• Solve complex engineering problems at massive scale
• Work with top industry talent and global brands
• Open, entrepreneurial culture that values innovation and ownership