Disney India - Senior Database Administrator - AWS/Oracle/PostgreSQL

The Walt Disney Company · Bengaluru

  • Experience5–8 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelsenior
  • Posted7 Sept 2026
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About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is hiring in Bengaluru in media advertising. This role looks for around 5+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • Amazon RDS
  • High Availability
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Backup and Restore
  • Performance Tuning
  • Linux
  • Database Monitoring
  • Database Administration

The role

A database administrator at a media and entertainment company manages Oracle, PostgreSQL, and AWS database platforms, designing high availability and disaster recovery architectures while automating operations with Terraform and Ansible. Production reliability, performance tuning, monitoring, and recovery expertise support mission-critical systems.

Full job description

Sr. Database Administrator - AWS | Oracle/PostgreSQL

Experience : 5+ Years | Job Type : Full-Time | Level : P3

Location : Bangalore

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Database Administrator to manage and optimize mission-critical database platforms across AWS and on-premises environments.

You will be responsible for database reliability, performance, availability, automation, disaster recovery, and production support while working closely with engineering and technology teams.

Key Responsibilities :

- Manage Oracle, PostgreSQL, Relational & NoSQL databases in production environments.

- Administer AWS database services, including Amazon RDS.

- Design and maintain HA, fault-tolerant and distributed database architectures.

- Perform performance tuning, troubleshooting, capacity planning and optimization.

- Implement backup, restore, recovery and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.

- Configure database monitoring, alerting and metrics using PMM, OEM and AWS monitoring tools.

- Automate database operations using Terraform/CloudFormation, Ansible and scripting.

- Support database upgrades, migrations, deployments and production releases.

- Participate in 24x7 on-call and critical production support.

- Mentor junior DBAs and act as a technical point of contact for database-related issues.

Must-Have Skills :

- 5+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience.

- Strong experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.

- Hands-on experience with AWS & Amazon RDS.

- Strong knowledge of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Backup/Restore and Performance Tuning.

- Experience with Linux and production systems.

- Good understanding of database monitoring and troubleshooting.

- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Good to Have :

- Terraform / CloudFormation

- Ansible / Chef

- Python / Java / Go

- Docker / Containers

- Git / GitHub / GitLab

- CI/CD

- SRE / DRE experience

- Agile/Scrum experience

- DBA or Cloud certifications

Education :

Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.