Database Engineer

About the role

Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Database Engineer with 1 year to 2 years of experience in managing databases in either on-premises or AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate should possess foundational knowledge of database administration, cloud services, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and operational support. The role involves supporting the provisioning, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, backup, security, and optimisation of database platforms such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, and AWS RDS (PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL). You will work closely with senior database engineers, application teams, DevOps engineers, and cloud infrastructure teams to ensure reliable and efficient database operations.

Key Responsibilities:​

- Assist in provisioning and managing database infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

- Support database configuration, deployment, and automation using Ansible playbooks.

- Administer and maintain self managed (hosted on aws ec2) databases and AWS managed databases such has Elasticache, RDS, Opensearch, DynamoDB, Nepture.,

- Monitor database health, performance, availability, and capacity using Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Grafana and other monitoring tools.

- Perform routine database administration tasks including user management, backup verification, patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities.

- Assist in identifying and resolving database performance issues, alerts, incidents, and service requests.

- Support database backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.

- Participate in database migration and upgrade projects.

- Maintain database security standards, access controls, and compliance requirements.

- Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams during application deployments and troubleshooting activities.

- Participate in on-call support rotations as required.

Mandatory Skills:​

- Basic administration knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or AWS RDS.

- Experience managing databases in on-premises or AWS cloud environments.

- Exposure to Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.

- Knowledge of Linux administration, SQL, database backup & recovery concepts.