Database Administrator

About us:

Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned traders, to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade & investment platform and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.

By focusing on our customers’ needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from 25 Thousand in 2017 to 2 Lakh in 2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over 3 million customers trust us with their investment decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry leader in the country.

The company was founded in 2009 by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath, and in2016 Kavitha Subramanian joined as the third co-founder. Backed by Ratan Tata, weraised $4 million in Series A funding (2016) led by Kalaari Capital. In 2019, US-based investment firm Tiger Global Management invested $25 million in a Series B funding round. Visit our Linkedin page to learn more about us.

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About the Team: We are a Formula-1 team where every millisecond counts. Here, we are continuously innovating and building highly scalable backend systems and strategies that give a seamless experience to our customers even during large volumes of traffic hitting our systems.

• 5+ years of experience as a SQL Server Database Administrator. (Proficiency in MS Sql, My Sql and Linux Administrator)
• Design, develop, and maintain SQL Server databases and ensure their stability, reliability, and performance.
• Implement and manage SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Monitor SQL Server performance and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Collaborate with developers to design and implement database solutions that meet business requirements
• Perform database Hotfix, Patching and Service Pack upgrade to keep the MSSQL database up to date.
• Perform database administration tasks, including backup and recovery, security management, and database optimization.
• Proficiency in T-SQL programming and performance tuning.
• Provide technical support and guidance to team members and stakeholders.
• Monitor database performance, ensure high availability, and implement backup and recovery strategies using AWS tools and services.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimise database schema, queries, and performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database issues, performance bottlenecks, and connectivity problems.
• Design, deploy, and manage MySQL database systems on the AWS platform.
• Install, configure, and optimise AWS Aurora/RDS for MySQL instances.
• Manage security, access control, and user permissions for AWS RDS instances.
• Manage and optimise database performance by utilising AWS database monitoring tools and services, such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Database Performance Insights.
• Perform database Major version upgrades from MySQL Aurora v5.7 to v8.0 and patching to keep the database infrastructure up-to-date with the latest MySQL and AWS releases.
• Stay updated with AWS database technologies, best practices, and security standards.
• Understanding of AWS services and concepts, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon DMS, S3 Bucket or AWS Backups.

Good to Have :- Provide support for MongoDB, AWS ElastiCache, and Redis database systems, assisting with troubleshooting and issue resolution.

• Assist in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of MongoDB, AWS ElastiCache, and Redis environments.
• Familiarity with Monitoring tool such as Datadog,Grafana & SumoLogic
• Should worked on Jira ticketing tool
• Collaborate with Database Administrators and Developers to diagnose and resolve database-related problems.
• Familiarity with database monitoring and performance tuning tools for MongoDB, AWS ElastiCache, and Redis.
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, Liquibase, Terraform and Git.