Vendavo is looking for a Manager - Cloud Operations (DBA) to lead the team responsible for the design, performance, security, and availability of the critical databases supporting our enterprise-scale SaaS applications. You will define our database platform strategy and manage infrastructure across cloud environments.
What You'll Do
- Define and drive Vendavo’s database platform architecture and strategy for cloud-native SaaS applications.
- Evaluate and adopt modern database technologies and best practices.
- Support scalable architectures capable of handling large pricing datasets and complex calculations.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and data durability for production environments.
- Design and maintain replication, clustering, failover, and backup strategies.
- Maintain enterprise-grade uptime and operational SLAs.
- Optimize databases supporting high-volume pricing calculations, analytics workloads, and transactional systems.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve schema design, indexing, and query performance.
- Conduct proactive performance monitoring and tuning.
- Manage and optimize databases across AWS or Azure cloud environments.
- Support and maintain managed database services such as RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, or Cloud SQL.
- Lead initiatives for database automation, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Lead and mentor a team of DBAs and database engineers.
- Establish operational standards, documentation, and runbooks.
- Drive a culture of automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Ensure adherence to data security, encryption, and access control policies.
- Support compliance with SOC2, GDPR, and enterprise security standards.
- Implement best practices for data protection and governance.
- Partner with Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Application Engineering teams.
- Support SaaS platform releases, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for database-related issues.
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years of experience in database administration or database engineering.
- 5+ years of experience leading or managing database teams.
- Strong expertise in enterprise relational databases such as: PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server.
- Proven experience managing databases in cloud environments (AWS, Azure).
- Deep experience in database performance tuning.
- Deep experience in high availability architectures.
- Deep experience in replication and clustering.
- Deep experience in backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience supporting large-scale SaaS or enterprise platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Linux-based environments.
Technical Stack
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
- Cloud: AWS, Azure
- Managed Services: RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, Cloud SQL
- Platform: Linux
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of DBAs and database engineers, establishing standards and fostering a culture of operational excellence.
Benefits & Compensation
- Professional growth and development opportunities.
- Friendly, skilled team environment.
- Flexible working hours.
- 4 recharge days (company-wide pause 1 day per quarter).
- High-end laptop (Dell or Mac).
- Competitive pay and bonus.
- 18 vacation days per year.
- 15 days Sick Leave/ Casual leave per calendar year.
- 16 hours of paid volunteer time off per year.
- Wedding gift and newborn gift allowance.
- 26 weeks of paid maternity leave.
- One week of paid paternity leave.
- 12 wellness leaves for women employees.
- Health Insurance of up to 7 lacs for self, spouse, 4 dependent children, and parents (100% premium paid).
- Group Term Insurance coverage up to three times of Annual CTC.
- Group Personal Accident coverage up to three times of Annual CTC.
- Provident fund contributions.
Vendavo is an equal opportunity employer.
