Lead Database Engineer jobs in Chennai at National Payments Corporation of India

1. Post: Lead Database Engineer

2. Roles and Responsibilities:

a. Minimum of 5+ years of experience in handling larger Online Transaction Processing Databases.Lead DBA should have experience in High Volume Online transaction processing/Payment Transaction processing in production database activity for operational improvements to include CPU, Disk, memory utilization, space utilization, security infractions and overall performance of databases.

b. Database migration between data centers and cloud environments using custom or commercial products and protocols. Good hands-on experience in managing enterprise RDBMS and NoSQL databases on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or equivalent.

c. Knowledge in configuring datastax Cassandra/spark.Hands on experience in configuring, adding, removing, upgrading and decommissioning Cassandra nodes/data centers.

3. Job Purpose:

a. Lead Database Administrator will be responsible monitoring, managing and working in 24 x 7 environment. NPCI has PostgreSQL / Cassandra / Redis / Elastic Search as database for different production applications. Responsible to work in 24 x 7 co-ordinate with application and operations team, to achieve desired results. Should be an individual contributor, should have ability to exile with the team.

b. Should be quick leaner. Should be able to follow the policies and procedure related to database, implement & maintain the production environment.

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is an initiative of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India.