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Principal Database Engineer
NextGen Healthcare
IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
Database-EngineerDatabase-EngineeringCloud-Database-AdministrationDatabase-Reliability-EngineeringSenior-Database-EngineerPrincipal-Database-AdministratorSenior-Database-EngineeringDatabase-Infrastructure-EngineerSenior-Database-ArchitectSQL-Database-EngineerQuery OptimizationBackup and RecoverySOCDockertroubleshootingMicroservicesObservabilityCD pipelinesGCPKubernetesSQL ServerEngineeringR ProgrammingPostgreSQLPrometheusautomationShell ScriptingTerraformdesigninganalyticsDatadogsecurityTestNGAzurePythonFulltime
Key highlights
- 10+ years of experience required
- Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience required
- Driving enterprise-wide migrations from SQL Server to PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services
- SRE and DevOps-focused database engineering role
- Cloud-provider agnostic approach with AWS and GCP specialization
Role overview
This is a senior-level database engineering role focused on designing, architecting, and governing enterprise database platforms across cloud environments (AWS, GCP). The position leads reliability, performance, and lifecycle management of Microsoft SQL Server platforms while driving enterprise-wide migrations and modernization initiatives toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services. The role emphasizes automation, infrastructure as code, reliability engineering (SRE), and serving as the technical authority for database architecture and cloud migrations across the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Define, architect, evolve and govern highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise database platforms across cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
- Lead the reliability, performance, scalability, and lifecycle management of Microsoft SQL Server platforms while driving enterprise-wide migrations and modernization initiatives toward PostgreSQL and cloud-native database services.
- Design and develop automated frameworks for database provisioning, patching, backup validation, failover testing, and routine maintenance using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management.
- Partner with Platform Engineering to design and implement robust database release automation, CI/CD pipelines, schema versioning, and environment standardization.
- Collaborate with application development teams to optimize database design, query performance, schema evolution, and deployment strategies for cloud-native and microservices-based architectures.
- Establish comprehensive database observability standards, implementing telemetry, logging, proactive alerting, and performance analytics across all database environments.
- Define and improve database reliability objectives, recovery strategies, and operational readiness practices.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive permanent corrective actions following major database production incidents, establishing post-mortem reviews to mitigate future risks.
- Author enterprise engineering standards, reusable automation modules, and comprehensive technical documentation to reduce operational complexity and improve platform consistency.
- Align database technology roadmaps with business goals in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Continuously evaluate emerging databases and data-tier technologies to recommend architectural improvements that enhance long-term reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for database architecture and cloud migrations, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers while influencing technical strategy across the engineering organization.
- Support strategic cloud initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud while remaining cloud-provider agnostic wherever practical.
- Perform other duties that support the overall objective of the position.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- Or, any combination of education and experience which would provide the required qualifications for the position.
- 10+ years of experience designing, supporting, and managing enterprise relational database platforms in production, with extensive experience operating in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices.
- Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, SRE initiatives, and implementing database DevOps practices like schema versioning and release automation.
- Experience mentoring engineers, influencing enterprise technical standards, and driving legacy database migrations (such as SQL Server) to cloud-native or open-source platforms.
- Microsoft SQL Server certification or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads, ideally within SaaS, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries (preferred).
- AWS or Google Cloud Professional certification (preferred).
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent containerization certification (preferred).
- Terraform Associate or equivalent Infrastructure as Code certification (preferred).
- ITIL Foundation or SRE-related certifications (preferred).
- Knowledge of: PostgreSQL or other enterprise relational database platforms, including database design, query optimization, and modernization pathways.
- Knowledge of: Observability and monitoring frameworks, including tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry (preferred).
Additional details
- The company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the company may deem appropriate.
- NextGen Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.