Database Administrator - Bengaluru Only (m/f/d)

About the Position

Database Administrator - Bengaluru Only (m/f/d)

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Company: Cuculus GmbH

Shape the utilities market of the future with us!

At CUCULUS, we build intelligent digital solutions that help utilities become more efficient, sustainable, and future-ready. By joining our technology team, you’ll work on business-critical systems that power large-scale utility operations, contribute to high-impact projects, and collaborate with global teams across cloud and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Database Administrator, you will be responsible for highly available, mission-critical database environments and ensure their availability, performance, security, resilience, and recoverability. You will:

• Administer and support Oracle 19c databases, including RAC and Data Guard.
• Manage PostgreSQL databases across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Administer and support ClickHouse database environments.
• Support business-critical 24/7/365 production operations within defined SLAs.
• Perform database performance tuning, SQL optimization, and capacity planning.
• Implement proactive database monitoring and health checks.
• Plan and execute database migrations, upgrades, and patching.
• Maintain backup, restore, and recovery strategies.
• Support High Availability and Disaster Recovery environments.
• Deploy and support database workloads on Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot database, Linux, storage, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Develop scripts and automation for recurring DBA activities.
• Perform deep root-cause analysis for database-related incidents.
• Support critical production incidents and customer escalations.
• Maintain DBA procedures, runbooks, and technical documentation.
• Work closely with System Engineering, Support, and Development teams.

Requirements

Must-haves:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant DBA experience, including at least 3 years supporting business-critical production database environments.
• Strong Oracle 19c administration.
• Strong Oracle RAC and Data Guard expertise.
• Strong Oracle performance tuning and SQL optimization.
• Strong PostgreSQL administration.
• PostgreSQL backup, replication, PITR, recovery, and migration.
• Hands-on ClickHouse administration.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Kubernetes production knowledge.
• Experience supporting database workloads on Kubernetes.
• Shell/Bash/Python or equivalent scripting skills.
• OCI, AWS, Azure, or equivalent cloud experience.
• Strong monitoring and observability capabilities.
• Strong backup, restore, and recovery expertise.
• Experience with HA and DR environments.
• Strong production troubleshooting and RCA skills.
• Experience operating within SLA-driven production environments.
• Ability to handle critical production incidents independently.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience with large-scale enterprise production systems.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud experience.
• Jira / Jira Service Management.
• Grafana, Prometheus, MONIT, or equivalent monitoring tools.
• Terraform.
• Ansible.
• Docker.
• Kubernetes Operators.
• OKE.
• Jenkins.
• GitLab.
• GitHub Actions.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive company culture

About the Company

Cuculus is the key to providing utilities to all, while protecting the world’s precious resources. Jointly with our international partner network, we provide cutting-edge software and technology solutions to address utility challenges now and in the future. Cuculus will never tire of creating innovative technology and services that enable utilities and organizations to successfully transition to a new era of providing and managing electricity, water, and gas. The work we do is important for individuals, cities, and entire nations. Our work is serious, but we have fun with it, too.