There's a SQL Developer opening in Mohali, based on-site at IT City, Sector 82, full-time, paying up to ₹70,000 a month. It calls for 48 months of hands-on database experience, and the work leans more toward database administration than pure application-layer development, so it suits someone who genuinely enjoys the internals of how data is stored and retrieved rather than just writing queries against a schema someone else designed. The role sits within the Database Administration function specifically, working alongside application teams rather than as a fully standalone unit.
What the work looks like
A backup job here quietly failed for three weeks last year before anyone noticed, right up until a routine restore test came back empty. Nothing was actually lost in the end, but it was close enough to make monitoring and verification a genuinely non-negotiable part of the role rather than a checkbox item. That near miss is part of why the team now treats a restore test as seriously as the backup itself, since a backup nobody has ever tried to restore is really just an assumption.
- Design and maintain database structures that hold up as an application grows
- Optimize queries so reports and application features run at acceptable speed under real load
- Manage backups and data security, including actually verifying that a backup can be restored
- Monitor systems for reliability and catch degradation before it becomes an outage
None of these four sit in isolation. A schema decision made during initial design often shows up later as a query optimization headache, and a monitoring gap tends to surface as a backup problem nobody caught in time.
A fair amount of the job is preventative rather than reactive. Catching a query that's about to become a problem as data volume grows, before it locks a table during business hours, matters more day-to-day than firefighting after something's already broken. Index maintenance falls into the same bucket: unglamorous work that mostly goes unnoticed until it's skipped for a few months and a report that used to run in seconds starts taking minutes instead.
What you'll need
The role requires a bachelor's degree, and something in the computing field fits the work naturally, though a candidate's actual track record with databases matters more in practice than the specific major on a transcript. Forty-eight months of relevant experience is expected, ideally including real exposure to production systems rather than only development or test environments. Someone who's mostly worked in a sandboxed dev database without ever touching a live system under real load will likely need a bit more ramp-up time than the stated requirement alone might suggest.
Skills that come up constantly here:
- SQL, at a level that includes writing and reading complex queries comfortably
- Stored procedures, both writing new ones and maintaining ones already in production
- Query optimization, understanding execution plans well enough to actually fix a slow query rather than guess at a fix
- Database design, structuring schemas that hold up under real-world data growth and changing requirements
Deep experience with a specific database platform, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL in particular, is useful without being a strict requirement, since the underlying concepts transfer reasonably well between them. Some comfort with scripting in Python or PowerShell for routine automation, and any exposure to cloud-hosted database services like Azure SQL or AWS RDS, round out a strong profile, though plenty of solid hires here have never touched a cloud database before starting.
Pay and what comes with it
The role pays up to ₹70,000 a month, which is a solid figure for a SQL developer job in Mohali at this experience level, given the database administration responsibilities layered on top of standard development work. That combination of skill sets tends to command a bit more than a purely query-writing role would, since fewer candidates in the local market genuinely cover both sides well.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident fund contributions
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Mohali
- Accommodation support during the initial move
IT City, Sector 82
The office sits in IT City, Sector 82, a purpose-built tech corridor that's become one of the more established addresses for IT companies in the Mohali-Chandigarh area. Naukri Mitra sees a steady flow of database and backend development roles from this sector, which makes it a reasonable place to compare a few similar offers side by side before committing. It's an on-site role, so schema design conversations and incident response both happen in person with the rest of the engineering team. The sector has grown enough over the past several years that a fair number of mid-sized product companies now share the same stretch of road, which makes it easier to switch employers later without relocating out of the city entirely.
For someone who's spent a few years already in database work, being on-site alongside the application developers who consume the data has a practical upside: a question about why a report is running slowly gets answered in a five-minute conversation instead of a ticket sitting in a queue overnight. That kind of quick back-and-forth also tends to surface schema problems earlier, before an inefficient query pattern gets baked into three different reports across the business.
Applying
A resume plus a short note on the scale of databases worked with, table counts, data volume, or transaction load, gives a reviewer more to go on than a bare list of tools. Anyone who's dealt with an actual production incident, a corrupted table, a failed migration, or a performance crisis during a sale event should mention it specifically rather than leave it implied. Shortlisted candidates go through a technical round on SQL and database design, followed by a scenario-based discussion about diagnosing a slow or unreliable system. Most candidates get a decision within about ten days of that final conversation, and there's no separate take-home assignment beyond the live technical round.
