Job Title:  Associate Director | Database Management | Mumbai | Engineering

Role: We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Redis DBA to design, operate, and optimize mission-critical on‑premise Redis environments. The role covers HA/DR architectures (Redis Cluster & Sentinel), performance tuning for memory-first workloads, persistence strategies (RDB/AOF), security hardening, automation, observability, and leadership across operations and modernization initiatives.

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realize your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organizations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture & High Availability

• • Design and operate Redis Cluster (sharding/slots) and Redis Sentinel for automated failover.
  • Engineer HA/DR, including cross‑DC replication, geo-redundancy, and capacity planning for high‑throughput/low‑latency workloads.
  • Define persistence strategies (RDB snapshots, AOF, AOF rewrite), durability SLAs, and storage considerations (filesystem tuning, I/O strategies).
  • Evaluate and (optionally) operate Redis Enterprise features (Active‑Active/CRDTs, multi‑AZ, tiered memory, modules).
• Administration
  • Install, configure, patch, and upgrade Redis OSS (and Redis Enterprise if applicable) on Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
  • Manage replication, sharding, and failover policies; implement connection pooling and client resilient patterns.
  • Plan keyspace design, data structures (Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes), and modules (RedisJSON, RedisSearch, RedisTimeSeries, Bloom).
  • Implement backup & recovery: scheduled RDB dumps, AOF management, filesystem snapshots (e.g., LVM), hot/cold backup SOPs, and DR drills.

• Performance & Optimization

• • Optimize memory footprint, eviction policies (noeviction/volatile‑, allkeys‑), maxmemory settings, and compression/module strategies.
  • Tune latency via pipelining, client-side batching, TCP/keepalive, I/O threads (where supported), and network settings.
  • Analyze and remediate hotspots: big keys, skewed slot distribution, slowlog, blocking commands, and long‑running Lua scripts.
  • Benchmark and size environments using redis-benchmark, realistic workload replay, and flame graphs (optional).

• Security & Compliance

• • Enforce TLS/SSL, ACLs, strong auth/rotations, and restricted bind/port exposure; harden OS/network paths.
  • Define RBAC/SOPs for access, secrets management, audit trails, and configuration baselines.
  • Align with compliance standards (e.g., PCI/ISO), including data retention, privacy, and encryption at rest (via OS/storage layers).

• Observability & Automation

• • Implement monitoring/alerting via Prometheus + Grafana (redis‑exporter), RedisInsight, OS metrics, and log pipelines.
  • Build runbooks and automate provisioning, config, and maintenance using Bash, Python, and Ansible (or Terraform for infra).
  • Establish SLOs/SLIs for latency, throughput, memory fragmentation, hit ratio, failover MTTR, and persistence lag.

• Collaboration & Leadership

• • Partner with application teams to model data structures, TTL strategies, and cache‑aside/write‑through/read‑through patterns.
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive actions; mentor junior DBAs/engineers.
  • Guide modernization, capacity growth, version upgrades, and (optional) hybrid adoption with cloud caches.

The team
The Team strategic growth team serves as a central pillar driving growth and transformation within Deloitte, spanning several business lines and various technology functions.  We are established as a centralized team collaborating across consulting, implementation, and operation to maintain and enhance client value offerings and services. We innovate conventional approaches, leveraging Deloitte technology, differentiated domain expertise, intellectual property, talent, and capacity to embed continuous advantage and deliver enhanced business value.

In this team, our focus is on catering to the unique needs and preferences of clients in the South Asia region. Your role within this dynamic team is essential for establishing networks and relationships across the client stakeholder ecosystem and ensuring service fulfillment. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with other Deloitte leadership and stakeholders dedicated to the client. Your contributions will involve nurturing new and existing relationships, supporting presales life cycles, and playing a pivotal role in driving the success of Deloitte business growth for the specific client.

You will be part of a global organization that is making a measurable impact that matters every day.

Your work profile

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 9–15 years of DBA experience with strong hands-on expertise in Redis production environments (on‑prem).
• Proven experience with Redis Cluster & Sentinel, replication, and HA/DR designs.
• Deep knowledge of persistence (RDB/AOF), performance tuning, and memory management/eviction policies.
• Proficient in Linux administration, networking, and storage/I/O fundamentals.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Bash, Python) and config management (Ansible).
• Experience with monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, redis‑exporter) and RedisInsight.

Desired qualifications

• Experience with Oracle-to-Postgres migration using EDB tools.
• Knowledge of pgBouncer, pgpool-II, and advanced PostgreSQL extensions (PostGIS, TimescaleDB).
• Certifications: PostgreSQL Professional or EDB Postgres Advanced DBA.

Location and way of working

• Base location: Mumbai
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customized the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as a leader

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, leaders across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviors and attitudes to become more inclusive.