Oracle Database Engineer - IN at rackspace – India | Jobyssey

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Database Engineer 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

3-6 years in DBA / Platform Engineering
3+ yrs of relevent experience in Oracle Databse
Should be ok to work 24x7 set up
Location - Hybrid - 2 days work from office - Hyderabad
Strong multi-cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP – at least one)
Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise
Automation-first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)
Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred

For a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in a DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) support role, the following mandatory skills are typically required:

1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills

Primary Database: Oracle
Secondary Database: Any
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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