# Lead Associate - Database **Company**: Davies **Location**: Viman Nagar, Maharashtra **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/a5d77cda-75b5-4a8c-94ee-61be74aab8d5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/lead-associate-database-27b8e78c-cf0/ ## Description We are seeking a Lead Associate - Database to join our IT department. As a Lead Associate - Database, you will be responsible for enhancing the reliability, performance, security, and operational maturity of our database platforms across both on-premises and cloud environments. Key Responsibilities: Database Platform Reliability & Service Optimisation: - Leverage database observability, performance analytics, and platform telemetry to enhance the availability, resilience, security, and operational health of enterprise database services. - Lead technical investigations into complex database service challenges, applying structured diagnostic methodologies, root cause analysis, and remediation strategies to improve long-term platform stability and reliability. - Contribute to database lifecycle management initiatives through the implementation of platform enhancements, environment standardisation, technology refresh activities, migrations, upgrades, and service optimisation programmes aligned with engineering standards. - Support the effectiveness of database governance frameworks by administering access models, role structures, privileged permissions, and service identities in alignment with security, compliance, and least-privilege principles. - Strengthen service recoverability and resilience through recovery assurance activities, validation of data protection capabilities, continuous improvement of recovery procedures, and support for business continuity objectives. - Drive database performance optimisation through the analysis of query behaviour, resource utilisation patterns, workload characteristics, indexing strategies, and platform performance trends, delivering improvements that enhance efficiency and scalability. - Contribute to the reliability and operational maturity of high-availability and replication architectures through proactive health assessment, resilience validation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Security, Risk & Governance: - Enhance database security posture by implementing approved hardening standards, remediation initiatives, platform currency programmes, and security-control improvements in collaboration with Cyber Security and risk stakeholders. - Maintain the integrity of database governance and service-management practices by ensuring accurate configuration, lifecycle, dependency, and ownership information is reflected across relevant service-management platforms and repositories. Knowledge Management & Continuous Improvement: - Develop and enhance technical knowledge assets, operational standards, recovery frameworks, engineering procedures, and service documentation that improve supportability, consistency, and organisational capability. - Drive automation and operational efficiency initiatives through the use of approved scripting, tooling, and orchestration capabilities that improve consistency, strengthen controls, and reduce operational complexity. - Provide database subject matter expertise during service recovery, technical investigations, and root-cause analysis activities, contributing actionable insights that improve service resilience and reduce recurring operational risk. Cross-Functional Engineering & Capability Development: - Collaborate with hosting, cloud, application, network, security, architecture, and technology partners to deliver integrated infrastructure outcomes and resolve complex cross-platform challenges. - Contribute to operational maturity and capability development by sharing technical expertise, improving knowledge transfer, supporting engineering best practices, and escalating systemic risks, design constraints, and platform improvement opportunities. ## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise: - Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. - 5–9 years in database administration, infrastructure support or IT operations, including hands-on Level 2 support in a complex enterprise environment. - Strong hands-on administration and troubleshooting capability across Microsoft SQL Server and working knowledge of one or more additional enterprise database technologies such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle. - Practical knowledge of database backup, restore, recovery models, high availability, replication, clustering, patching, upgrades, indexing, query analysis, capacity management and performance monitoring. - Working knowledge of Windows and/or Linux server administration, storage, networking, DNS, certificates, Active Directory or Entra ID integration, and cloud database services. - Ability to use SQL, PowerShell and approved automation or monitoring tools for administration, validation, reporting and repeatable remediation. - Sound understanding of database security, least privilege, privileged access, encryption, auditing, data protection, vulnerability remediation and evidence requirements. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Microsoft SQL Server - Azure SQL - PostgreSQL - MySQL - Oracle - SQL - PowerShell - Windows server administration - Linux server administration - database security - least privilege - privileged access - encryption - auditing - data protection - vulnerability remediation ### Nice to have - Azure Database Administrator Associate - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) - ITIL 4 Foundation --- Source: [Apply at davies.pinpointhq.com](https://davies.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/a5d77cda-75b5-4a8c-94ee-61be74aab8d5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)