Database Engineering Manager, Associate / Vice President

Manage and support enterprise database platforms to ensure stability, availability, performance, security, and resiliency. Perform and oversee installation, configuration, upgrade, patching, backup and recovery, migration, capacity planning, and lifecycle management. Support high availability, replication, and disaster recovery; validate operational readiness. Investigate and resolve incidents, performance issues, locking/contention events, and service degradation; drive root cause analysis. Partner with application, infrastructure, information security, and vendors on design, production readiness, and operational support. Establish operational procedures, standards, access controls, backup policies, recovery documentation, and platform governance artifacts. Support database security hardening, audit readiness, access review, and compliance remediation. Provide secondary support across server/storage matters; monitor performance and drive continuous improvement. Participate in project delivery, platform upgrades, technology refresh, migration, and environment optimization. Engage with regional/global teams to align with enterprise standards and strategic direction. Support internal audit, regulatory reviews, risk assessments, and vendor governance as required.