Société Générale

Lead Systems Engineer - Postgres SQL

Société Générale

Bangalore, IndiaContractor / TempPosted Apr 10, 2026

Job description

Role / Job Summary: Postgres DBA L3 accountable & responsible for handling global database operations. Candidates must be willing to work in rotational shifts.

Location: Bangalore/Chennai

Years of Experience: 8 – 10 years

Key Responsibilities

Own 24* 7 database support; handling Incidents, Requests, Problems & Changes.

Handle on-call database support during week-ends & out of business hours.

Own & deliver various client & infra projects.

Plan & deliver various projects around database patching, upgrades & migrations.

Management of various tools/scripts being used for databases.

Managing Primary DBA roles for multiple applications.

Contribution towards automation of recurrent tasks.

Ticket reduction through problem management.

Manage disaster recovery tests & exercises.

Identify & deliver various POCs (Proof of concepts) for latest RDBMS features, open source & new technologies.

Work closely with application teams to provide solutions across various requirements & problems.

Proactively identify the problems and provide solutions to avoid incidents & application outages.

Work with other infra teams to optimize databases performance and reduce incidents probability.