Staff Software Engineer

Greetings from Tata Consultancy Services!!!

Required Experience: 9-15 Years

Location: Bangalore

Job Summary:

Were looking for a Lead Engineer to drive the support, maintenance, and operational health of cloud-based databases. This role focuses exclusively on the DBA function, including the management of Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, SingleStore, and related infrastructure. Youll lead day-to-day execution around incident response, backup and recovery, schema changes, and performance tuning, while contributing to Terraform modules and automation to improve scalability and reliability. Youll also mentor engineers supporting database infrastructure and partner closely with platform teams to ensure secure, resilient, and well-governed data stores. This role is ideal for someone with deep database operations experience and a passion for building and sustaining cloud-native data systems at scale.

Must-Have Skills: AWS cloud account management/security, EKS, Istio, Software Development, unit testing, CI/CD, Terraform, Datadog, AWS RDS, database administration/security, Backup and recovery management

Key Responsibilities:

• Database operations and maintenance : Ensure stability, availability, backup/restore, performance, and patching of cloud-based databases (RDS, DynamoDB, SingleStore)

• Incident response and troubleshooting : Lead root cause analysis, incident resolution, and follow-up actions for database-related issues in production and non-prod environments

• Infrastructure automation and Terraform modules : Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for database provisioning, access controls, parameter tuning, and lifecycle management

• Schema change and data lifecycle governance : Coordinate safe schema changes, assist with migrations, and enforce policies for non-prod and prod data access.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or database engineering roles, including 2+ years in a lead or ownership capacity
• Deep operational experience with cloud-native databases such as Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB, and SingleStore
• Proven ability to manage backup/restore, patching, availability, and performance tuning for production databases
• Familiarity with schema management, migration strategies, and safe rollout practices for high-availability systems
• Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure services including IAM, VPC, KMS, and ALB/NLB
• Strong understanding of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code for provisioning and managing database resources
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go to automate operations and improve observability
• Solid collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to align across platform, security, and application teams
• Experience leading on-call rotations and incident resolution for database-related high-severity incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multi-tenant or SOX-regulated data environments
• Exposure to automated schema management tools, change control gates, or database CI/CD
• Familiarity with Datadog, CloudWatch, or other observability platforms for database health and performance monitoring
• Understanding of AWS billing, usage patterns, and cost optimization for RDS, DynamoDB, and SingleStore
• Experience working in globally distributed teams or supporting cross-region infrastructure
• Exposure to role-based access control, encryption (TLS/KMS), and compliance standards in database operations