Job Title:

Associate Vice President

Work Type:

Permanent

Location:

Embassy Park - Bengaluru

It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

Purpose:

Why do we need this role? 

• Role of Junior DBA is to automate, maintain and provide BAU support, for PostgresSQL environments, particularly those based on Crunchy. This engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the security, availability, and performance of our databases, while also supporting engineering teams in feature development and infrastructure automation
• The Infrastructure engineer role in core banking modernization is critical to ensure secure and reliable operations of cloud infra to run Mission, Customer and Country critical applications including core ledger with relational database and docker containers as key components

What and how is it expected to contribute to results? 

• They will be a team player who is customer focused and committed to delivering quality integration solution. 
• They will provide critical thinking and a high degree of technical innovation and attention to detail while being recognised as a trusted advisor to the team and stakeholders. 
• Their characteristics will include being versatile, displaying leadership qualities and enthusiasm to take on new problems and assist NAB in moving technology forward to benefit our customers
• As well as the technical skills we are looking for someone who is a great communicator, solutions driven and thrives in working in a team to achieve the project goals.

Essential capabilities

• Deliver Business-as-Usual (BAU) PostgreSQL support across multi-cloud environments.
• Maintain and optimize PostgreSQL database environments with adherence to SLAs.
• Leverage Ansible for database automation, working closely with Crunchy PostgreSQL tooling.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Unix Shell scripts to support system integration and process automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of automation pipelines.
• Facilitate a smooth handover from the existing support arrangement ending December 31, 2025.
• Participate in database-related feature development and infrastructure enhancements.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and disaster recovery readiness of the database ecosystem.
• Maintain currency of PostgreSQL database software and supporting tools (patching and upgrades).
• Develop and maintain automation tools for building, deploying and managing PostgreSQL databases
• support the Crunchy Ansible Playbooks
• Patching of databases and clustering software (Patroni)
• Upgrades
• Product enhancement
• Work in an agile environment, attending stand-ups, retros, planning, showcases and other agile meetings and ceremonies
• Work closely with scrum masters, asset designers and data consulting team to determine platform requirements and priorities
• Demonstrate strong technical thought leadership that helps resolve technical barriers and roadblocks impacting delivery teams
• Showcase work to stakeholders
• Automate using Ansible, PostgreSQL
• Design and maintain the Cloud environments

Technical capabilities

•       5+ years PostgreSQL DBA experience  (Not a guru but above average)

•       Experienced with Patroni clustering

•       Hands on Bash Shell scripting

•       Ansible experience

•       Bonus – Crunchy PostgreSQL

•       Crunchy Automation PostgreSQL experience is a huge bonus

•       Hands on experience with Clustered PostgreSQL databases especially knowledge of Patroni.

•       Deep understanding of PostgreSQL Infrastructure, clustering, and replication

•       Strong expertise in PostgreSQL administration and Support

•       Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix

•       Well above average Bash shell scripting

•       Proficient in PostgreSQL  db backups (pgbackrest), Recovery, BAU Support, performance tuning, PostgreSQL concepts

•      Experience supporting DBs in Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

•      Contribute to end-to-end automation and database workflows.

•      Understanding of Monitoring and Alerting needs for large scale systems

Experience

It is expected that the role holder will most likely have the following qualifications and experience:

• Proven experience in PostgreSQL administration and performance tuning.
• Hands-on expertise with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Strong Unix/Linux Shell scripting abilities.
• Solid understanding of backup/restore procedures and high availability setups.
• Capability to understand and contribute to end-to-end automation and database workflows.
• Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
• Exposure to FOAK (First-Of-A-Kind) database solutions is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across engineering and operations teams.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:

Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you:

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India:

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities

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