We are Hiring
Role: GCP Database Administrator
📍 Location: UK (Remote)
⏳ Experience: 4 years and above
📩 Send your resume to: [email protected]
- SC clearance is Must
GCP Database Administrator | Cloud SQL | BigQuery | PostgreSQL | MySQL | Database Migration | Performance Tuning | GCP Cloud Operations
GCP Database Administrator
About the Role
We are seeking a skilled and experienced GCP Database Administrator (DBA) to manage, monitor, and optimize our cloud-based database infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring database availability, security, performance, scalability, and reliability while supporting mission-critical business applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain GCP database services including Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, AlloyDB, and PostgreSQL/MySQL environments.
- Perform database installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and migrations.
- Design and implement backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Monitor database performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize queries and database structures.
- Ensure database security through access controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance best practices.
- Automate routine DBA activities using scripting languages such as Python, Shell Script, or Terraform.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and cloud engineering teams to support application deployments.
- Manage database capacity planning, scaling, and performance tuning initiatives.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting using Google Cloud Monitoring and Logging.
- Support on-premises to GCP database migration and modernization projects.
- Document database procedures, standards, and operational processes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in Database Administration.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle databases.
- Experience with database backup, recovery, replication, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix administration.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- Knowledge of cloud security and database governance best practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification.
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise databases.
- Familiarity with data warehousing solutions such as BigQuery.
Required Skills
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Cloud SQL
- BigQuery
- Cloud Spanner
- AlloyDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Database Performance Tuning
- Backup & Recovery
- Disaster Recovery
- Terraform
- Python
- Linux
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Database Migration