Technical PM (Database Operations)

Location: Sunnyvale, CA/Onsite**
Duration: Full Time
Client: Confidential
Salary Range: $80000-$140000 a year
Visa: USC, GC, GC EAD, OPT Workable
Experience required: 8-10 years**
Interview Mode: Video

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Technical PM is responsible for overseeing the administration, performance, availability, security, and operational support of enterprise database environments. This role leads a team of Database Administrators (DBAs), ensures database systems meet business and service-level requirements, and drives automation, optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives across on-premises and cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage day-to-day database operations across multiple database platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).

• Manage a team of DBAs, including resource planning, performance management, mentoring, and skill development.

• Ensure high availability, reliability, security, and performance of production databases.

• Oversee database monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution.

• Plan and execute database upgrades, migrations, patching, backups, recovery, and disaster recovery testing.

• Establish and maintain database operational standards, procedures, and best practices.

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to support business initiatives.

• Drive automation initiatives using scripting and database management tools to improve operational efficiency.

• Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, and database optimization activities.

• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements.

• Support cloud database platforms such as AWS RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, or Google Cloud SQL.

• Prepare operational reports, KPIs, SLAs, and executive dashboards.

• Participate in change management and release management processes.

• Manage vendor relationships and coordinate support activities with database vendors.

Required skills

• Team Leadership

• Database Administration

• Incident & Problem Management

• Performance Tuning

• Capacity Planning

• Disaster Recovery

• Cloud Database Management

• Vendor Management

• Automation & DevOps

• Stakeholder Communication