Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Specialist, IT Infrastructure (Database)
Job ID: 36969
Job Level: S2 Core
Job Location: Gurugram / Bangalore
Function:Digital Information Office (DIO)
Employment Type: Full time
Working pattern: Hybrid
Why we need this role
We are seeking a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer with deep technical expertise in Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server platforms. This role is a hands-on Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for designing, optimising, securing, and supporting business-critical database services across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring resilient, secure, compliant, and cost-efficient database solutions are designed and delivered. They will contribute to technology roadmaps, driving automation, and supporting strategic initiatives such as upgrades, migrations, consolidation, high availability, disaster recovery, and cloud modernisation.
What you will do
- Act as a technical SME for Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server platforms.
- Design, implement, and support database solutions for business-critical workloads across Production, Development, Test, and Disaster Recovery environments.
- Own and provide technical direction for Oracle RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, RMAN, and Enterprise Manager solutions.
- Own and provide technical direction for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, replication, log shipping, backup, recovery, and monitoring solutions.
- Deliver against database platform strategy and roadmap, including upgrades, migrations, consolidation, modernisation, and remediation of end-of-life or end-of-support platforms.
- Drive platform stability, performance, capacity, availability, and resilience, ensuring database services meet operational and business requirements.
- Lead complex performance tuning, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of major incidents and recurring problems.
- Develop and maintain robust backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities, including regular validation and failover testing.
- Identify and deliver cost optimisation opportunities across database licensing, infrastructure utilisation, consolidation, storage, and support models.
- Develop automation and standardisation using Ansible, PowerShell, Shell scripting, Python, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Ensure database security through patching, vulnerability remediation, privileged access controls, hardening, encryption, auditing, and compliance evidence.
- Collaborate closely with application owners, operating system teams, cloud engineering teams, architecture, security, network, storage, vendors, and wider Infrastructure & Operations teams.
- Maintain high-quality technical documentation, including platform designs, standards, build guides, runbooks, operational procedures, capacity reports, and audit artefacts.
- Provide technical leadership for major changes and projects, including planning, risk assessment, implementation, validation, and rollback.
- Participate in the on-call rota to support critical incidents.
What we're looking for
- Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise-scale Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
- Deep Oracle expertise covering RAC, ASM, Data Guard, GoldenGate, RMAN, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
- Deep SQL Server expertise covering Always On Availability Groups, clustering, replication, log shipping, backup and recovery, performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and migrations.
- Proven experience supporting highly available, business-critical production database services.
- Experience leading database upgrades, migrations, consolidations, platform refreshes, and disaster recovery implementations.
- Strong knowledge of database monitoring, capacity management, alerting, incident management, and proactive problem prevention.
- Experience working in hybrid environments, integrating on-premises database platforms with Azure, OCI, AWS, or GCP services.
- Solid knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, compute, storage, networking, clustering, and virtualisation fundamentals.
- Strong troubleshooting capability across complex, multi-layered database and infrastructure environments.
- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible and scripting technologies such as PowerShell, Shell, or Python.
- Working knowledge of ITIL processes, change governance, audit controls, security compliance, and vulnerability remediation.
Technical Competencies
- Deep technical expertise and recognition as a go-to SME for Oracle and SQL Server platforms.
- Ability to independently lead technical delivery of complex database changes, migrations, upgrades, and recovery activities.
- Strong understanding of high availability, resiliency, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery design.
- Advanced database performance analysis, optimisation, capacity planning, and root cause analysis skills.
- Experience with automation, standardisation, optimisation, and platform engineering practices.
- Ability to define database standards, reference architectures, operational controls, and lifecycle roadmaps.
- Ability to contribute to design and technology decisions in partnership with architecture, security, cloud, and application teams.
Behavioural & Professional Skills
- Ownership & Accountability: Takes full responsibility for database platform stability, security, and technical outcomes.
- Technical Leadership: Influences engineering direction and mentors colleagues without requiring direct line management responsibility.
- Outcome-Driven: Focuses on measurable improvements in availability, performance, cost, security, and resilience.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, application, and supplier teams.
- Communication: Clearly articulates complex database concepts, risks, options, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities for automation, optimisation, simplification, and service improvement.
What we offer you:
Looking to make a mark?
At Colt, you’ll make a difference. Because around here, we empower people. We don’t tell you what to do.
Instead, we employ people we trust, who come together across the globe to create intelligent solutions.
Our global teams are full of ambitious, driven people, all working together towards one shared purpose: to put the power of the digital universe in the hands of our customers wherever, whenever and however they want.
We give our people the opportunity to inspire and lead teams, and work on projects that connect people, cities, businesses, and ideas. We want you to help us change the world, for the better.
Diversity and inclusion
- Inclusion and valuing diversity of thought and experience are at the heart of our culture here at Colt. From day one, you’ll be encouraged to be yourself because we believe that’s what helps our people to thrive. We welcome people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, age, marital status, pregnancy status, or place of birth.
Most recently we have:
- Signed the UN Women Empowerment Principles which guide our Gender Action Plan
- Trained 60 (and growing) Colties to be Mental Health First Aiders
- Please speak with a member of our recruitment team if you require adjustments to our recruitment process to support you. For more information about our Inclusion and Diversity agenda, visit our DEI pages.
Benefits
Our benefits support you through all parts of life, for both physical and mental health.
- Flexible working hours and the option to work from home.
- Extensive induction program with experienced mentors and buddies.
- Opportunities for further development and educational opportunities.
- Global Family Leave Policy.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Internal inclusion & diversity employee networks.
A global network
- When you join Colt you become part of our global network. We are proud of our colleagues and the stories and experience they bring – take a look at ‘Our People’ site including our Empowered Women in Tech.