Database Administrator

Database Administrator
Location: Pune(Hybrid)
Status: Permanent, Full Time
Package: Competitive Salary (fixed), 5 Day Working Week, Flexible Working (with one-off allowance and twice a week in office), Development & Opportunity (Personal & Technical), Group Medical Policy, Group OPD Cover, Personal Accident Cover, Term Life Cover, 26 Days Leave + 9 Public Holidays + Buy & Sell Scheme, Referral Scheme.
Why are we hiring a Database Administrator ? We’re on the hunt for a Database Administrator as part of our company’s growth.
As a Database Administrator (DBA), you keep production data available, fast and secure across Oracle, Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. You will work alongside the Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering and development teams to embed data reliability into every stage of the delivery cycle. Who’s Instem? Well, we’re a global provider of bespoke industry-leading software solutions and services, which facilitate the pre-clinical, and clinical phases of the drug discovery process. We have over fifteen products in our portfolio, used by over 700 pharmaceutical clients (including all the top 20!)
Instem is a unique, solutions-based organisation. We’ve doubled in size over the last 3 years through new business and product enhancement, but also via acquisition. Our 5-year growth plan is progressive, and we need you to help us reach that next level! What’s the culture/environment like? For a global business of over 300 staff, we very much have a family feel. You’ll be part of a friendly, communal, solution based, flexible environment, where you’ll feel empowered, valued and accountable. We’ll invest in you as a person and encourage you to take part in companywide workshops for wellbeing, mental health, critical conversations, and strengths.
What are you responsible for?

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  Support and maintain Oracle, Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL and SQL Server estates.
• Design resilient architectures with SRE and platform engineers.
• Review schema changes and query plans with developers.
• Monitor and maintain health, capacity, and performance, Azure Monitor, Datadog, and pgAdmin.
• Set up and test backup, restore and disaster recovery with RMAN, cloud snapshots, and log shipping.
• Patch and upgrade databases with near‑zero downtime.
• Join incident calls, lead database triage and write clear post mortems.
• Script routine tasks in Bash, PowerShell, Python, and SQL*Plus etc.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

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  Production Oracle DBA skills: RMAN, Data Guard, partitioning, ASM, basic RAC.
• Strong SQL, PL/SQL, T SQL, and PL/pgSQL; comfortable tuning queries and indexes.
• Experience with Oracle Manager, Datadog and Azure Monitor.
• Proven backup, recovery, high availability and disaster recovery practice.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and release automation (Azure DevOps).

Daily, millions of lives are improved by the Instem technologies and services that have been deployed by our clients. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to help save and prolong people’s lives, by doing what you do best!

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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