Senior DBA; Java

Position: Senior DBA (Java)
Description

Job Title:

Staff/Senior DBA with Java knowledge - Classic CDRO

Employment Type:

Permanent

Work Location:

Chennai - Remote

About Cloud Bees

Cloud Bees enables enterprises to deliver scalable, compliant, and secure software, empowering developers to do their best work.

Seamlessly integrating into any hybrid and heterogeneous environment, Cloud Bees is more than a tool—it's a strategic partner in your cloud transformation journey, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency while enhancing the developer experience across your entire software development lifecycle. It allows developers to bring and execute their code anywhere, providing greater flexibility and freedom through fast, self-serve, and secure workflows.

Cloud Bees supports organizations at every step of their Dev Sec Ops  journey, whether using Jenkins on-premise or transitioning software delivery to the cloud. We're helping customers build the future, today.

About

The Role

We're seeking a Staff / Senior Database Administrator with deep database expertise and solid Java backend skills. You'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and maintaining robust database systems while developing efficient backend services that ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high performance database systems.
Extensive working knowledge with any one any one of databases, MySql, Sql Server, Oracle, Postgres
Optimize database architecture, queries, indexing, and ORM mappings (JPA/Hibernate) for maximum efficiency and data integrity.
SQL & PL/SQL:
High proficiency in writing, tuning, and debugging complex SQL queries and PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, and packages.
Capacity Planning:
Monitor database usage, predict future storage and performance needs, and plan for capacity expansion.

Collaboration:

Work with application development teams to optimize database designs, queries, and stored procedures (PL/SQL).
Provide technical support for database environments, including testing and installation of DBMS upgrades
Manage database deployments, monitoring, replication, backups, and performance tuning.
Plan and execute database upgrades, ensuring smooth transitions to newer versions. Identify and troubleshoot any database-related issues
Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks and other database-related issues.
Collaborate with Dev Ops to automate and streamline database operations in CI/CD pipelines.
Enforce data integrity, security, and compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
Contribute to architecture design and decision making across data and backend layers.
Build and enhance backend services and APIs using Java.
Use Liquibase (or similar tools) to manage schema versioning, migrations, and rollbacks.
Document database policies, procedures, and standards, and ensure they are followed

Qualifications

Required:

8+ years of experience in database engineering (MSSQL, Oracle, Postgre

SQL or MySQL).
Deep expertise in SQL query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance tuning.
Proven hands on experience in Java backend development (min 2 years) .
Solid understanding of JPA/Hibernate, including entity mapping, lazy loading, and cascading behaviors.
Practical experience with Liquibase or similar schema migration/versioning tools.
Proficiency in database deployment, replication, and upgrade processes.
Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
Skilled in diagnosing and resolving complex database and application performance issues.
Basic understanding of anyone of the cloud services. ( AWS/GCP/etc.,)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred (not mandatory):

CI/CD practices
containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience working in Agile methodologies
Advanced Java concepts

Competencies

Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
Self learning

Working Conditions

Standard working hours: 9am - 6pm., Mon–Fri, or as per business needs
Work location / travel expectations:
Remote
Reasonable accommodations will be considered in line with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Compens…