About the job
Global Healthcare Exchange Inc. seeks a Senior Database Operations Engineer in Hyderabad, Telangana. This position plays a central role in the Database Administration team, supporting the design, development, and maintenance of database solutions for both internal and external clients. The engineer will help manage the company’s corporate and cloud database infrastructure, supporting GHX DaaS and SaaS offerings.
Role overview
This role involves planning, designing, implementing, and supporting core database functions to meet corporate standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and compliance. Collaboration with operational and development teams is key to ensuring smooth service delivery and database reliability.
What you will do
- Administer and manage databases, including backup and recovery, performance monitoring, data security, access management, installations, upgrades, patch management, and failover server management.
- Maintain data integrity and system security by following operational and security policies throughout the service lifecycle.
- Provide 24/7 monitoring, on-call support, and troubleshooting for database issues, and deliver operational feedback to development and release teams.
- Mentor and support junior database engineers.
- Work with database platform engineers on version upgrades and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of experience in Database Administration.
- Deep knowledge of at least one RDBMS or NoSQL platform (such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Oracle, or SQL Server), plus basic familiarity with others.
- Experience working with hybrid and public cloud environments.
- Background in supporting implementation projects.
- Proven ability to manage databases in high transaction and high availability settings.
- Knowledge of horizontal scaling and high availability technologies (for example, Oracle RAC & Data Guard, SQL Server 'Always On').
- Hands-on experience with Solaris, UNIX, Linux, or Windows operating systems in both physical and virtual environments.
- Experience with cloud-hosted databases, preferably on AWS.
Preferred skills
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a customer service mindset.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.

