Design, build, optimize and maintain relational database platforms across on-prem and cloud. Automate provisioning, deployments and migrations using IaC/automation tools. Perform performance tuning, patching, scaling, security/compliance, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product and application teams, write tests, document systems, and drive continuous improvement of platform and deployment pipelines.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Professional, Platform Engineering job designs, develops and maintains digital technology infrastructure to Databases. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals, and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
Role Specific:
The Senior Professional, Platform Engineering job designs, develops and maintains digital technology infrastructure to Databases. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals, and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Leads the application of internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
- Have a Bachelors degree with minimum 9 years of professional experience.
Role Specific:
- Design, build, optimize, and maintain relational database systems with focus on stability, availability and operational excellence.
- Responsible for Database provisioning (e.g., Oracle Database, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL etc.) across on-premises or cloud environments. Ownership for infrastructure scaling, performance tuning and optimization, patching & upgrades, resource management, security and compliance.
- Build tools and automated frameworks for provisioning new databases, reducing manual configuration drift. (e.g., using Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes).
- Partner with application teams to ensure application logic interacts flawlessly with the database. Automate recurring tasks and migrations (e.g., with scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or Ansible)
- Lead troubleshooting for complex database outages or query degradation; conduct root-cause analyses. Responsible for maintenance and Operational excellence.
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