Director

Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

Database Reliability & Performance  •  Senior Individual Contributor

• Experience: 6–9 years in production database administration / engineering
• Level: Senior Individual Contributor (hands-on)
• Function: Data Platform — reliability, performance, and governance across relational and distributed SQL & NoSQL DBs.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Database Administrator to own the health, performance, and reliability of the data layer behind a high-scale, multi-tenant platform. Our environment spans several independent PostgreSQL database instances, a cache-first read tier, change-data-capture pipeline, analytics and archival stores. Should be capable of implementing NoSQL stores (Cassandra / ScyllaDB) & MySQL  end to end as we scale.

This is a hands-on senior IC role for someone who has run demanding production databases and wants full ownership: partitioning and maintenance, performance tuning, monitoring, uptime, disaster recovery, and the security and data-governance documentation that keeps a regulated, multi-tenant platform audit-ready. You will work closely with, and take direction from, engineering leadership — translating priorities into a well-run, well-documented data platform.

What You'll Own

PostgreSQL Depth

• Administer multiple production PostgreSQL instances (v16+), including schema/DDL review, migrations, and release coordination.
• Design and maintain table partitioning strategies (range/hash/time-based) and automate partition lifecycle — creation, retention windows, and safe drops.
• Own query and instance performance tuning: EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, indexing strategy, autovacuum/bloat management, connection pooling (e.g. PgBouncer), and parameter-group tuning.
• Execute zero-downtime schema changes using expand–migrate–contract / blue-green patterns; assess lock impact and avoid long ACCESS EXCLUSIVE locks on hot tables.
• Manage replica topology (writer/reader endpoints), replication lag, and read-scaling as load grows.
• Partner with app teams on migration tooling (e.g. Flyway) and paired forward/rollback scripts; enforce idempotent, reviewed, tested DDL.

NoSQL & Scale

• Data-model, deploy, and operate distributed NoSQL clusters — Cassandra and/or ScyllaDB — including partition/clustering key design, compaction strategy, repair, and node operations (bootstrap, decommission, scale-out).
• Lead the planned migration of high-volume payload tables from partitioned PostgreSQL to Cassandra/ScyllaDB: capacity planning, dual-write/backfill design, cutover, and validation.
• Tune distributed-store read/write paths, consistency levels, and cluster sizing for predictable latency at scale.
• Support the cache-first architecture (Redis) and change-data-capture / streaming pipelines (e.g. Kafka) that move data to analytics and cold-archival stores.

Operations, Reliability & DR

• Own database uptime and SLOs; build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for the key signals (latency, replication lag, CPU/IO, connections, vacuum lag, error rates).
• Define and regularly test backup and disaster-recovery strategy — RPO/RTO targets, point-in-time recovery, restore drills, and cross-AZ / future multi-region readiness.
• Drive incident response for database-related issues: triage, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and follow-up actions.
• Write and maintain runbooks (partition maintenance, failover, archival, DR, migration procedures) and participate in an on-call rotation for the data layer.
• Establish production-change discipline: pre-flight and post-deploy verification, rollback criteria, and backup verification before destructive operations.

Security, Governance & Documentation

• Implement and maintain database access control — least-privilege roles, schema-scoped permissions, and row-level security (RLS) for multi-tenant isolation.
• Own data-governance documentation: PII maps, per-table retention policies, audit-readiness, and the controls behind privacy-regulation compliance (e.g. GDPR / DPDP-style erasure and legal-hold workflows).
• Author and maintain architecture decision records (ADRs), schema documentation, and monitoring/runbook docs so the data platform is legible to the wider team.
• Uphold encryption-at-rest/in-transit posture and safe handling of sensitive columns; keep the data layer aligned with the platform's compliance requirements.

Coding & Automation Bar (Required)

This role is automation-first, not click-ops. The right candidate treats repetitive database work as something to script away and can drop into application code when a problem demands it.

• Strong scripting in Python and Bash for automation of maintenance, backups, partition management, backfills, and health checks.
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible) for reproducible database infrastructure.
• Solid SQL and PL/pgSQL; able to read and debug application-layer database code and, worst case, write or patch application code (e.g. Python/Node/Java) to unblock a fix.
• Fluent with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI for database migrations and tooling.

Required Qualifications

• 6–9 years operating relational databases in demanding production environments, with deep PostgreSQL expertise (internals, partitioning, replication, performance tuning).
• Hands-on experience running at least one distributed NoSQL store in production — Cassandra or ScyllaDB strongly preferred (other wide-column/distributed stores considered).
• Proven ownership of backup/DR, monitoring, and incident response for production databases.
• Strong scripting/automation background (Python, Bash) and experience with IaC.
• Experience with managed cloud databases (AWS RDS or equivalent) and understanding of instance/parameter-group tuning, replicas, and failover.
• Experience designing for multi-tenancy and data isolation at scale.
• Clear written communication — able to produce runbooks, ADRs, and governance docs a team can rely on.

Nice to Have

• Experience migrating workloads from PostgreSQL to Cassandra/ScyllaDB (or similar relational-to-distributed migrations).
• Familiarity with Redis as a cache tier and with CDC / streaming pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Debezium).
• Exposure to Flyway (or Liquibase), pgTAP or similar schema testing, and PgBouncer.
• Working knowledge of privacy regulations (GDPR, India DPDP) and audit/compliance processes.

How You Work

• Ownership mindset — takes a directive and runs it to done, with sound judgment on trade-offs.
• Reliability-first and detail-oriented; disciplined about verification, rollback, and documentation.
• Collaborative in a high-performing engineering team; communicates clearly with developers and leadership.
• Pragmatic and scale-aware — designs for where the platform is going, not just where it is.

Key Responsibilities

Administer, monitor, and support database platforms including Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

Perform database performance tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting.

Write and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and scripts.

Ensure database availability, reliability, backup, recovery, and security compliance.

Support production incidents, root cause analysis, and ongoing operational improvements.

Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and support teams to resolve database-related issues.

Required Skills

5 to 10 years of hands-on experience in Database Administration.

Strong experience with Couchbase, PostgreSQL, and/or Oracle databases.

Expertise in performance tuning, query optimization, indexing, and SQL development (Complex Queries, Stored Procedures, Scripts)

Experience with database monitoring, backup, recovery, and maintenance activities.

Production Support, Troubleshooting & RCA

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Nice to Have

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Exposure to database automation and scripting

Qualifications

● 3-8 years experience in Cloud Database Administration

● Proficient in PostgreSQL database management, including installation, configuration, and performance tuning.

● Experience with Amazon RDS or Cloud SQL and managing databases in cloud environments.

● Proficient in PostgreSQL/MySQL database management, including installation, configuration, and performance tuning.

● Proven experience as a Database Administrator with a focus on

PostgreSQL/MySQL.

● In-depth knowledge of database design, implementation, and management for both PostgreSQL/MySQL environments.

● Familiarity with database security, backup procedures, and performance tuning for both systems.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

● Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

● Relevant certifications (e.g., PostgreSQL Certified Professional, MySQLDatabase Administrator) are a plus.

Skills:

● Expertise in PostgreSQL/MySQL database management systems.

● SQL programming and query optimization for both databases.

● Data modeling and database design for PostgreSQL/MySQL.

● Backup and recovery procedures for both environments.

● Performance tuning and optimization for PostgreSQL/MySQL.

● Security protocols and measures for PostgreSQL/MySQL.

● Capacity planning and scalability for both systems.

We are looking for a Database Administrator to keep our databases fast, secure and highly available.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases
• Tune queries and database performance
• Manage backup, recovery and disaster-recovery plans
• Handle replication, high availability and security

Requirements

• 2+ years as a DBA on Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQL Server
• Strong backup, recovery and tuning experience
• Oracle or Microsoft DBA certification is a plus

You'll own heterogeneous database migrations end to end for enterprise customers moving off Oracle and SQL Server onto PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL. That means running the AWS DMS and SCT toolchain, then doing the part the tools can't: rebuilding procedural business logic in PL/pgSQL when SCT flags a gap it can't close on its own. You ship the runbook, you run the cutover, you validate the result. 

What you'll do?

• Lead end-to-end database migration initiatives, including assessment, planning, schema conversion, execution, and post-migration validation.
• Design, configure, and manage AWS DMS and SCT environments while ensuring migration quality, performance, and reliability.
• Author comprehensive migration runbooks that define execution procedures, validation checkpoints, rollback plans, and operational readiness activities.
• Perform database migration assessments, dependency analysis, compatibility reviews, and migration strategy recommendations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and platform teams to ensure successful migration outcomes.
• Drive migration testing activities, including functional validation, performance testing, failover testing, and production readiness reviews.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to migration teams while ensuring adherence to AWS migration best practices and governance standards.
• Lead conversion and refactoring of procedural database code — Oracle PL/SQL (packages, procedures, functions, triggers, cursors) and SQL Server T-SQL (stored procedures, functions, triggers) — into PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, resolving semantic and behavioral differences identified by SCT.

What we're looking for?

• 8–12 years of professional experience in database architecture and migration delivery
• Hands-on expertise in AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) for enterprise-scale database migrations
• Deep proficiency in Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL environments, including migration planning, execution, and optimization
• Proven background in delivering heterogeneous database migrations across on-premises, cloud, and AWS environments
• Knowledge of production database operations, including backup and restore strategies, parameter tuning, performance optimization, and failover testing
• Skills in authoring and executing migration runbooks, validation plans, cutover procedures, rollback strategies, and post-migration stabilization activities
• Strong understanding of AWS database services, migration best practices, and integration with broader cloud migration programs
• Experience engaging directly with enterprise customers, architecture teams, and migration stakeholders to drive successful delivery outcomes
• Strong hands-on experience converting Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T-SQL business logic to PL/pgSQL, including handling of exception handling models, cursor semantics, autonomous transactions, sequences/identity columns, implicit data type conversions, and proprietary built-in packages/functions with no native PostgreSQL equivalent
• Ability to identify and remediate SCT action items and manual conversion gaps in procedural code (e.g., DBMS_* packages, UTL_* utilities, SQL Server system procedures, dynamic SQL, and nested/recursive procedure calls) and validate converted logic through functional and regression testing.

You'll be preferred if you

• Have tuned production database performance, backup and restore strategy, and failover testing in high-stakes environments.
• Have led migration teams or mentored engineers through complex conversions.
• Bring experience with broader AWS cloud migration programs beyond the database layer.

Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores' founders' sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Database Developer to lead and support Oracle to PostgreSQL/Aurora PostgreSQL migration initiatives. The role involves deep hands-on work across SQL refactoring, schema conversion, DMS operations, performance tuning, and post–go-live stabilization. The candidate will work closely with application teams, cloud engineers, and stakeholders to ensure a smooth, performant, and compliant migration.

What you will do?

• Refactor and convert Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, and database objects to PostgreSQL-compatible SQL/PLpgSQL.
• Analyze and remediate AWS SCT (Schema Conversion Tool) findings and limitations.
• Manage and maintain Flyway migration codebase (versioned scripts, repeatable migrations, rollbacks).
• Identify, troubleshoot, and fix database-related application bugs.
• Perform query optimization for PostgreSQL (execution plans, indexing strategies, query rewrites).
• Support and monitor AWS DMS during full load and CDC phases.
• Diagnose and resolve DMS data and performance issues.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation between Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Collaborate with application teams to align SQL behavior and performance expectations.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as an Oracle/PostgreSQL DBA and database developer.
• Strong experience with Oracle Database and PostgreSQL / Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on expertise in Oracle to PostgreSQL migration.
• Advanced SQL and query performance tuning skills.
• Experience with AWS SCT and AWS DMS.
• Knowledge of Flyway/Liquibase or similar schema migration tools.
• PostgreSQL internals: indexing, statistics, execution plans.
• AWS services: RDS/Aurora, CloudWatch, IAM (preferred).

You will be preferred if:

• Familiarity with automation and configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Familiarity with IAAC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD implementation tools like Liquibase/Flyway.
• AWS Certified Database – Specialty.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Job Description — L2/L3 Oracle DBA and Oracle Apps DBA 

Experience: 5–10 years of relevant experience​

Support coverage: Dubai customer business hours and on-call support as required 

Role Overview 

We are seeking an experienced Oracle DBA and Oracle Apps DBA to support 

customer Oracle Database and Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environments. The role 

involves L2 incident resolution, L3 troubleshooting, performance tuning, patching, 

upgrades, and maintaining database and application availability. 

Key Responsibilities 

Oracle Database Administration 

∙Install, configure, administer, and maintain Oracle databases across 

production and non-production environments. 

∙Monitor database health, availability, performance, storage, and capacity. 

∙Troubleshoot database incidents, connectivity failures, locking, blocking, and 

resource issues. 

∙Analyse AWR and ASH reports, SQL execution plans, and database wait 

events to resolve performance problems. 

∙Configure and manage RMAN backups; perform recovery and restore 

validation. 

∙Administer Oracle RAC, ASM, Grid Infrastructure, and Data Guard 

environments. 

∙Perform database patching, upgrades, migrations, and refreshes through 

approved change procedures. 

∙Manage database users, roles, privileges, auditing, and security controls. 

∙Execute disaster recovery drills, Data Guard switchovers, and failovers. 

∙Automate routine administration and monitoring using shell scripts and SQL. 

Oracle Applications DBA 

∙Administer Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 application and database tiers. 

∙Monitor and troubleshoot concurrent managers, concurrent requests, 

Workflow Mailer, application services, and login issues. 

∙Perform EBS online patching using ADOP and manage the associated 

patching lifecycle. 

∙Clone and refresh EBS environments using supported tools, including Rapid 

Clone. 

∙Maintain application configuration using AutoConfig and context files. 

∙Administer EBS-related WebLogic Server, Oracle HTTP Server, and Forms 

services. 

∙Troubleshoot application-tier performance and coordinate with functional 

and development teams. 

∙Support EBS upgrades, technology-stack patches, certificate renewals, and 

integration-related incidents. 

∙Maintain operational procedures for application startup, shutdown, backup, 

recovery, and maintenance. 

L2/L3 Support and Customer Operations 

∙Own incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs. 

∙Provide L2 troubleshooting and escalate complex issues with complete 

diagnostic evidence. 

∙Lead L3 investigation, root-cause analysis, and permanent corrective actions. 

∙Support major incidents, communicate progress, and document recovery 

actions. 

∙Raise and manage Oracle Support service requests. 

∙Prepare change plans, risk assessments, validation steps, and rollback 

procedures. 

∙Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles, configuration records, and shift 

handovers. 

∙Coordinate with customer teams and internal infrastructure, storage, 

network, and application teams. 

∙Mentor junior DBAs and identify opportunities to reduce recurring incidents. 

Required Skills and Experience 

∙Hands-on production experience administering Oracle Database, including 

Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, 18c and 19c. 

∙Strong experience supporting Oracle EBS R12.2 as an Apps DBA. 

∙Practical knowledge of RAC, ASM, Data Guard, RMAN, Data Pump, and 

Data Platform Engineer

Design, automate, and scale our data platform — this is an engineering role, not a traditional "DBA job.

Must-have :

• Data modeling & schema design (from first principles, not just maintenance)
• PostgreSQL (deep, hands-on — partitioning, replication, tuning)
• Any distributed NoSQL store (Cassandra, ScyllaDB, or similar wide-column/distributed DB) (real production experience)
• Python (automation & tooling, not just scripting)
• DevOps & CI/CD (building pipelines, not just using them)
• Terraform (infrastructure-as-code)

You'll:

• Design schemas, partitioning strategies, and lead the Postgres → Cassandra migration end-to-end
• Own PostgreSQL performance, replication, and zero-downtime schema changes
• Build Python-based automation to eliminate repetitive DB work
• Own CI/CD pipelines and Terraform-based infra provisioning
• Drive uptime, DR, monitoring, and incident response
• Own multi-tenant security (RLS, least-privilege access) and data governance

Experience: 4–9 years, data/database/platform engineering in demanding production environments.

Bonus: Kafka/Debezium (CDC), Redis, Flyway/Liquibase, GDPR/DPDP exposure.

15+ years of IT Delivery and Technology Services experience.

15+ years managing large offshore delivery organizations.

Proven leadership of portfolios exceeding 200+ resources.

Financial Services or Banking experience is a MUST

Extensive technical experience in Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Data Brics.

Cloud Data Transformation Programs, Data Warehousing, Azure Data Platform and compliance experience

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

For over 35 years, the experts at Mitratech have been focused on solving the complex needs. Today, we serve 20,000 client companies of all sizes globally, representing 30% of the Fortune 500 and over 500,000 users in over 160 countries.

As we continue to grow, we’re always looking for resourceful, enthusiastic, and fresh perspectives. Join our global team and see what makes Mitratech a truly exceptional place to work!

Job Overview 

Principal Data Engineer

About Engineering at Mitratech Legal Solutions 

Mitratech's engineering organization is a collaborative and dynamic environment where engineers are empowered to drive technical direction and innovation. Our engineers are passionate about delivering high-quality products and solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers, and we're committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. 

About the Role 

Mitratech is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and this role requires someone who is adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape. If you’re a seasoned engineer with a passion for technical leadership, innovation, and collaboration — including building the data foundations that power trusted reporting and agentic AI-driven products — we’d love to hear from you. 

What You Will Do

•  Drive technical direction for a significant product domain or platform capability, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs 

•  Design and maintain data pipelines and reporting models that power trusted business metrics and increasingly feed agentic AI systems (e.g., RAG ingestion, embeddings, vector stores, AI agent workflows) 

•  Use AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, AI agents) as part of your own workflow, and help other engineers adopt agentic development practices effectively 

•  Reduce systemic complexity by identifying and leading architectural debt remediation, and developing strategies for ongoing technical debt management 

•  Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to inform multi-quarter roadmap feasibility, and provide technical guidance and oversight to ensure successful implementation 

•  Elevate engineering craft across multiple teams through RFCs, mentorship, and knowledge sharing, and develop training programs to improve engineering skills and knowledge 

•  Represent Mitratech’s technical capabilities externally, including speaking at conferences, contributing to open-source projects, and engaging with industry peers and thought leaders 

What We Are Looking For 

To be successful in this role, you will need: 

•  10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on technical leadership and architecture 

•  Deep understanding of data engineering principles, including data modeling, data warehousing, reporting, and data governance 

•  Strong technical expertise in SQL, PostgreSQL, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI tools, and analytics platforms 

•  Practical experience with AI/LLM-adjacent and agentic AI data work — e.g., RAG ingestion pipelines, embedding generation, vector store management, or building/operating AI agent workflows over data — using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as a regular part of the engineering workflow 

•  Working knowledge of modern cloud platforms such as AWS 

•  Experience with BI, reporting, dashboards, and customer-facing analytics 

•  Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with product, engineering, analytics, and business teams 

Nice to Have 

•  Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails and React 

•  Experience with a semantic or metrics layer (e.g., dbt Semantic Layer, headless BI) 

•  Understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and infrastructure-as-code 

The Stack Context 

•  Modern data stack: Fivetran, Airbyte, dbt, Snowflake, GitHub, Terraform, or similar tools 

•  Application context (nice to have): Ruby on Rails, React, or similar backend/frontend frameworks 

•  Data modeling: SQL, analytics models, documentation, testing, naming standards, and version control 

•  Infrastructure: cloud-based data infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud storage 

•  Data workflows: ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reporting, deployment, and change management 

•  Reporting focus: trusted metrics, scalable reporting models, dashboards, exports, and data quality 

•  AI surface: data pipelines and quality practices supporting AI/LLM and agentic AI use cases (RAG, embeddings, vector stores, AI agents) alongside traditional BI 

Why This Role 

This role offers a unique opportunity to drive technical direction and innovation at a rapidly growing company, while also mentoring and coaching engineers to improve their craft. As a Principal Data Engineer at Mitratech, you will have the chance to work on complex and challenging problems spanning trusted reporting and agentic AI systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and represent the company's technical capabilities externally. If you're looking for a role that offers a mix of technical leadership, data and reporting depth, agentic AI innovation, and collaboration, this could be the perfect fit for you. 

We are an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.