Senior Database Administrator

About Us

slice A new bank for a new India.

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the role The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating and managing our databases. You will ensure optimal database performance by analyzing database issues and monitoring database performance.

What You Will Do Knowledge of AWS Environment. Managing various cloud databases in AWS like RDS Aurora, PostgreSQL and RDS MSSQL. Responsible for database maintenance and upgrades. Database performance monitoring, activity auditing, anomaly detection and alerting. Reporting on metrics regarding usage and performance. Ensure high availability, backup and recovery as per SLA and compliance requirements. Develop and Implement process for optimizing Data Security. Proactively respond to production infrastructure alerts and warnings, mitigate production issues and transform incident lessons into automation, documentation to prevent a recurrence. Discuss and contribute towards architectural and design decisions with the team and developers in optimizing complex queries. Participate in datastore related infrastructure POCs. Other common DBA activities like configuration management, troubleshooting, performance Tuning, schema management, storage management, log management etc.

What You Will Need Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Technology, or a related field of study. Strong analytical skills with problem-solving; good documentation and communication skills. 4+ years’ experience in the software industry with PostgreSQL. Experience in database administration, backups, DR, design, development, maintenance, and production support of relational databases and business applications. General database related services and administration skills in AWS. Exposure to database monitoring/observability and alerting in AWS. Exposure to handling on-call incidents (incident management and troubleshooting). Prior experience with database health reporting. Prior experience to work with cross functional teams for database operations. Exposure to performance tuning, query optimization, client/server connectivity, compliance & security and database consistency checks using different utilities. Exposure to manage databases using PAM/DAM solutions (cyber ark, adaptive etc.) Good to have - Database hardening and compliance, DSPM Good to have – DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Redis, MySQL, MSSQL.

Life at slice Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

Competitive salaries. Period. An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life. A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here. Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.