staff data engineering Database Engineer tech_leadership · Posted Apr 20, 2026

About this role

Rackspace is hiring a staff-level Database Engineer in the data engineering function based in Hyderabad, India. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, GCP, Azure.

Role
Database Engineer
Function
data engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
Hyderabad, India
Posted
Apr 20, 2026

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Job description

from Rackspace careers
  • What We’re Looking For

  • Someone who can work from Hyderabad - Work from Office

  • 8-10+ years in DBA / Platform Engineering
  • Strong multi-cloud experience (Azure / AWS / GCP – at least two)
  • Deep HA/DR & performance tuning expertise
  • Automation-first mindset (Terraform, scripting, CI/CD)
  • Experience in SaaS/DBaaS environments preferred
  • For a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in a DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) support role, the following mandatory skills are typically required:

    1. Database Administration (DBA) Skills

  • Primary Database: Oracle
  • Secondary Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server
  • Database Backup & Recovery: Tools and strategies for database backups and disaster recovery.
  • Performance Tuning: Query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance troubleshooting.
  • Database Security: User management, roles, access control, and auditing.

  • 2. Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge (DBaaS)

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (RDS, Aurora), Azure (Cosmos DB, SQL Database), GCP (Cloud SQL, Firestore).
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes.
  • Kubernetes & Containers: Running databases in containers (like Kubernetes).
  • Observability Tools: ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Database Migration: Migrating databases across different platforms or cloud environments.
  • Database Scaling: Vertical and horizontal scaling techniques in cloud environments.

  • 3. SRE Principles (Site Reliability Engineering)

  • Incident Management: Handling database outages, incident response, and on-call rotations.
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch.
  • Service Level Objectives (SLOs) / Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Ensuring uptime and performance targets.
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