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At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That's what we do.
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Job Title:
Database Reliability Engineer III
- Eng
Experience:
5–8 Years
Location:
Noida |
Shift: 12×7 support (on call rotation)
Role Overview
We are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) who applies SRE principles to database platforms to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence. The role combines deep database expertise with automation, observability and incident management.
Key Responsibilities
Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of mission critical database systems
Own incident management (P1–P3), root cause analysis, and long term fix tracking
Drive performance tuning (queries, indexing, statistics, execution plans)
Basic understanding of AIOps and use of AI/LLMs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI) for RCA, query insights, and runbook generation
Exposure to cloud-managed databases (AWS RDS/Aurora, Azure SQL, GCP Cloud SQL) and their intelligent features
Experience with AI-driven observability tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Ability to automate routine DBA tasks (patching, reboot, backups, health checks) and repetitive work using GHA, Python, Bash, Jenkins, or Power Shell
Capability to build AI-assisted alert-driven automation, including SOP execution, anomaly detection, and alert noise reduction
Good with RDBMS concepts.
Design, implement and improve monitoring, alerting and error budgets
Perform capacity planning and growth forecasting
Execute database upgrades, migrations, patching and DR exercises
Maintain HA/DR, backup, restore and failover readiness
Reduce toil through automation and standardization
Enforce security, compliance and audit requirements (SOC, access controls)
Build and maintain SOPs, runbooks and recommended actions
Partner closely with Engineering, SRE, Infra and Application teams
Exposure to CI/CD and Infra as Code
Prior on call experience in enterprise environments
Technical Skills (Mandatory)
Strong experience with one or more:
PostgreSQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
Expertise in:
Query optimization & performance troubleshooting
Index design, statistics management
HA & replication (Always On, Streaming Replication, Failover)
Monitoring & observability tools:
Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Solar Winds DPA or equivalent
OS fundamentals:
Linux and/or Windows
Cloud exposure: GCP / AWS / Azure
Strong SQL and production troubleshooting skills
DBRE / SRE Expectations
Automation using Shell, Power Shell, Python, GHA
Strong understanding of:
Alert noise reduction
MTTR, MTTM, SLIs/SLOs
Proactive vs reactive operations
Experience supporting large scale, multi tenant production systems
Qualification
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT or equivalent practical experience
Company Overview
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.
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UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.
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