Platform Engineer – Sybase Database Administrator

Role Overview

• Administer, maintain, and support Sybase ASE database environments hosting critical banking and treasury applications.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Sybase database platforms.
• Monitor database performance, availability, and capacity to ensure optimal system operation.
• Analyze and resolve database-related incidents, performance bottlenecks, locking issues, and production outages.
• Perform database performance tuning through query optimization, indexing strategies, and resource utilization analysis.
• Manage database backup, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery processes.
• Ensure database environments meet recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
• Support application teams during deployments, releases, upgrades, and production changes.
• Design and implement database maintenance plans, housekeeping activities, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Administer user access, database security, authentication, and authorization controls in accordance with banking security policies.
• Implement database monitoring, alerting, and proactive health checks to minimize service disruptions.
• Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting for database environments.
• Support database replication, high availability, clustering, and failover configurations where applicable.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for database administration and operational activities.
• Provide secondary support for Microsoft SQL Server environments and related database services.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, middleware, and security teams to resolve cross-functional issues.
• Support audit reviews, compliance assessments, and regulatory requirements for database platforms.
• Maintain database documentation, operational procedures, recovery plans, and technical standards.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) activities and implement preventive actions for recurring issues.
• Provide L2/L3 production support and participate in on-call support rotations as required.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to database reliability, performance, automation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Engineer, Database Administrator, or Platform Engineer supporting enterprise database environments.
• Strong expertise in Sybase ASE database administration, configuration, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience managing production Sybase environments in banking, financial services, or other mission-critical industries.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server administration and support.
• Strong experience with database installation, upgrades, patch management, and migration activities.
• Hands-on experience with database backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
• Expertise in SQL query optimization, indexing, execution plan analysis, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting high-availability, replication, clustering, and failover database architectures.
• Strong knowledge of database security, access controls, encryption, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems and database-related administration activities.
• Proficiency in Shell Scripting, Korn Shell (ksh), PowerShell, or automation scripting tools.
• Experience with database monitoring and performance management tools.

Tech Stack

• Linux
• MS SQL Server
• Shell Scripting
• SQL
• Unix

Benefits

• Flexible, supportive environment
• Wellness programs