Database Administrator & Middleware Engineer (L3)

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About The Role

We are looking for Database Administrators and Middleware Engineers to manage the full lifecycle of relational database and middleware infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. The role covers database provisioning, patching, performance tuning, schema management, access control, high availability, backup and compliance audit — alongside middleware stack management. The emphasis is on consistent, automated management with strong operational and security standards.

Key Responsibilities

• •Provision database instances with standardised baseline configurations across on-premises and cloud
• •Apply database patches and manage CVE remediation across all platforms on schedule
• •Manage database users, schemas, access permissions and role-based privilege control
• •Monitor database performance — query throughput, resource utilisation and capacity trends
• •Tune queries, execution plans and indexes to maintain performance within agreed thresholds
• •Manage database backup policies and validate restore procedures on a regular schedule
• •Monitor and manage high availability replication; execute failover and maintain RPO within targets
• •Conduct database access auditing and produce compliance and audit reports
• •Monitor database health and capacity; report on trends and escalate capacity risks proactively
• •Manage middleware platforms — Apache, Nginx and IIS installation, patching and configuration
• •Participate in DR drills for the database tier and validate recovery procedures
• •Maintain database runbooks, standard operating procedures and change documentation

REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• •Relational databases — Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
• •Cloud-managed databases — AWS RDS and Azure SQL Database
• •Database provisioning and lifecycle management — consistent, repeatable deployments
• •Database patching and CVE management — lifecycle patching across all database platforms • Performance tuning — query analysis, execution plan optimisation and index management
• •Schema management — schema design support, object lifecycle and version control
• •Database access management — user provisioning, role-based access control and privilege governance
• •Database backup and restore — policy management, backup validation and restore procedures
• •Replication and high availability — synchronous/asynchronous replication, failover and RPO management
• •Database monitoring — performance metrics, capacity utilisation, alert management and trending
• •Compliance and audit — database access auditing, activity monitoring and compliance reporting
• •Middleware — Apache HTTP Server, Nginx and Microsoft IIS installation, configuration and lifecycle
• •Configuration management — Ansible or equivalent for database and middleware automation
• •At least 5 - 10 years of experience

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than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.

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