Senior PostgreSQL SRE
Barclays · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Ansible, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, SQL
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About the role
To apply software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response, to ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through them.
Responsibilities:
- Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
- Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
- Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL.
- Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
- More than ten years of professional experience and expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus,) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
- Leadership role in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
- Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
- Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
- Experience in implementing PostgreSQL Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a PostgreSQL operator or a Helm charts.
- Recognized as a PostgreSQL subject matter expert, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
- Proven experience in designing and executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
- Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
- Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime
- This role requires extensive knowledge and working experience in Technology, Information, and Security domain.
- Working experience in a financial environment
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience of working on Data migration tools and softwares
- Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
- Expert expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks
- AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is a plus.
- You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- This role is based in Pune.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Principal Level Database Administrator, with a focus on PostgreSQL and similar database technologies such as Oracle or MS-SQL.
- Proven track record of implementing and leading SRE practices across large organizations or complex teams.
- More than ten years of professional experience and expert-level knowledge of telemetry, monitoring, and platform observability tooling (e.g., ESAAS, Grafana, Prometheus,) with experience in customizing and scaling these solutions.
- Leadership role in implementing modern DevOps and SRE practices in enterprise environments.
- Proven expertise in SQL query optimization and database performance tuning at scale.
- Experience with DevOps automation tools such as Code versioning (git), JIRA, Ansible, Containers and Kubernetes (OpenShift), database CI/CD tools and their implementation.
- Experience in implementing PostgreSQL Container patterns on Kubernetes with the help of a PostgreSQL operator or a Helm charts.
- Recognized as a PostgreSQL subject matter expert, serving as the highest level of technical escalation for complex database issues.
- Proven experience in designing and executing database migration strategies at enterprise-scale.
- Exceptional collaboration skills with executives and cross-functional teams.
- Extensive experience working with large, distributed, high-performance, high-availability databases with 24/7 uptime
- This role requires extensive knowledge and working experience in Technology, Information, and Security domain.
- Working experience in a financial environment
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience of working on Data migration tools and softwares
- Expert in system configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible for database server configurations.
- Expert expertise with scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell, Python, Bash) for automation/migration tasks
- AWS Certified Database
- Specialty certification is a plus.
- You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
- This role is based in Pune.
Responsibilities
- Availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
- Resolution, analysis and response to system outages and disruptions, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
- Development of tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency, and improving system resilience.
- Monitoring and optimisation of system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
- Collaboration with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle, and work closely with other teams to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.