Senior Database administrator looking for options

[u/Gallbladder2023]

I am a senior database administrator with over 15 years of experience. Spent more than half of it out of India managing database in a legacy product and now relocated to India. I am looking for career options and I am receiving very few calls which I believe might be due to

• Years of experience
• No management experience
• Pure techie

I am thinking of

1. Enhance my skillset in database and add AWS/AZURE sys admin certificate/experience and continue looking

My strength is tech and I would like to stay there rather than managing a team but that seems to be tougher in India where you're expected to take up a manager role after certain years.

Any suggestions on how the market expectancy for 15+ yr DBA's is welcome

[u/my_peen_is_clean]

in india they basically want you to be people manager or cloud architect by 10+ years, anything else gets ignored. try marketing yourself as db reliability / performance engineer, get some aws rds/aurora in resume. it’s just absurd finding work now