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Fahad Azam

Cloud Database Engineer | Oracle | PostgreSQL | Redis | AWS RDS | Terraform | OCI Exadata | RMAN & Data Guard

Hyderabad

5+ years of work experience

Accenture
Aug 20232 yrs 9 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Managed hundreds of Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across Cloud(AWS), Exadata (OCI), DBaaS, and on-premises, along with Redis Cloud DB clusters — supporting mission-critical production workloads under SLA-driven environments. • Performed multiple full-lifecycle database operations: installation, patching, and version upgrades including Oracle DBaaS 12c ? 19c migration in OCI. • Configured and maintained Oracle Data Guard; executed switchover, failover, and SCN-based recovery operations; resolved standby sync gaps using incremental roll-forward. • Designed and implemented centralized RMAN backup automation across all non-production databases using shell scripting — enabling scheduling, validation, and unified monitoring from a single control script. • Upgraded and migrated 5 different Redis clusters in production with zero downtime from Rhel-7 to 8. • Automated DBA health checks, diagnostics, and routine operations on Oracle Linux and Rhel using shell scripts; monitored database availability and performance metrics to support observability and proactive incident prevention.
Cognizant
Aug 20221 yr 1 moAug 2023

India

Cognizant
Aug 20212 yrs 1 moAug 2023

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

GitHub
@fahad-azam

Education

Techno India College of Technology

B.Tech - Bachelor of Technology, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation

Techno India College of Technology

20174 yrs2021

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Headline

Cloud Database Engineer | Oracle | PostgreSQL | Redis | AWS RDS | Terraform | OCI Exadata | RMAN & Data Guard

About

I manage databases for a living — and I automate everything around them. Over the past 4+ years I've operated 50–100 Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Redis databases across AWS, OCI Exadata, and on-premises at Accenture and Cognizant. The work ranges from Data Guard failovers at 2am to building RMAN backup frameworks that replace hours of manual scripting with a single parameterized script. Outside of work I built a multi-region high-availability AWS infrastructure from scratch using Terraform — custom VPCs, RDS primary/standby, automated failover via Lambda and SSM. It's on my GitHub if you want to see how I think about infrastructure. What I'm good at: → Oracle DBA operations — Data Guard, RMAN, 12c to 19c migrations, Exadata → Cloud database management — AWS RDS, OCI DBaaS, hybrid environments → Automation — Shell scripting, Terraform, reducing manual work wherever I find it → Monitoring — Grafana, Prometheus alerting before incidents happen Currently exploring Senior Database Engineer and Cloud DBA opportunities where database reliability and automation are taken seriously. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | OCI Certified Foundations Associate

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

Database Engineer at Accenture, Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Managed hundreds of Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across Cloud(AWS), Exadata (OCI), DBaaS, and on-premises, along with Redis Cloud DB clusters — supporting mission-critical production workloads under SLA-driven environments. • Performed multiple full-lifecycle database operations: installation, patching, and version upgrades including Oracle DBaaS 12c ? 19c migration in OCI. • Configured and maintained Oracle Data Guard; executed switchover, failover, and SCN-based recovery operations; resolved standby sync gaps using incremental roll-forward. • Designed and implemented centralized RMAN backup automation across all non-production databases using shell scripting — enabling scheduling, validation, and unified monitoring from a single control script. • Upgraded and migrated 5 different Redis clusters in production with zero downtime from Rhel-7 to 8. • Automated DBA health checks, diagnostics, and routine operations on Oracle Linux and Rhel using shell scripts; monitored database availability and performance metrics to support observability and proactive incident prevention.

Programming Analyst at Cognizant, Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, India

Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant, Aug 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Education

B.Tech - Bachelor of Technology, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation, Techno India College of Technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/fahad-azam