Database Administrator

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator to join bswift’s growing India team. This is a high-impact, hands-on role that owns the health, performance, and reliability of our SQL Server and AWS database environments during the off-shift window — a critical coverage period for our production systems.

What you'll do

• Proactively tune and optimize database performance through query analysis, indexing strategies, execution plan review, profiling, and continuous monitoring
• Own day-to-day administration of SQL Server 2019+ environments, ensuring performance, availability, scalability, and security across production and lower environments
• Execute core database engineering functions: backups, restores, environment refreshes, data de-identification, Always On availability groups
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to performance, blocking, deadlocks, and failed jobs using SQL queries and monitoring tools (Idera, Redgate)
• Participate in on-call rotation via PagerDuty and respond to database alerts and incidents during the off-shift window

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• SQL
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• ETL
• Terraform
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Redis
• Data modelling
• NoSQL
• Machine learning
• DynamoDB
• Elasticsearch