Manager, Database Reliability Engineering
On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Lead a Database Reliability Engineering team to ensure health, performance, automation, and scalability of Tekion’s data backbone (MongoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch). Mentor a high-performing team, drive automation for database provisioning, scaling, backups, upgrades, patching, and recovery using Go or Python; establish IaC standards; oversee monitoring, incident response, and postmortems; collaborate with SRE, CloudOps, Security, and development teams; define DBRE best practices, runbooks, and cost-efficient scaling; ensure security and compliance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master’s in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in database engineering, DBRE, or SRE roles, with at least 3+ years in a technical/team leadership or management position
- Deep hands-on experience managing and automating MongoDB, MySQL, and Elasticsearch
- Strong programming skills in Go or Python for database automation and tooling
- Proven ability to design and implement automation for database lifecycle operations, monitoring, and self-healing
- Expertise in building, running, and scaling highly available database clusters (replication, sharding, backup/restore, performance tuning)
- Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, patching, and compliance practices
- Excellent communication, incident leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing technical talent
- Prior Manager experience is a must
- Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
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