Database Administrator & Middleware Engineer L2 (1- year renewable) #IAC
Job Responsibilities
- Provision database instances with standardised baseline configurations across on-premises and cloud
- Apply database patches and manage CVE remediation across all platforms on schedule
- Manage database users, schemas, access permissions and role-based privilege control
- Monitor database performance — query throughput, resource utilisation and capacity trends
- Tune queries, execution plans and indexes to maintain performance within agreed thresholds
- Manage database backup policies and validate restore procedures on a regular schedule
- Monitor and manage high availability replication; execute failover and maintain RPO within targets
- Conduct database access auditing and produce compliance and audit reports
- Monitor database health and capacity; report on trends and escalate capacity risks proactively
- Manage middleware platforms — Apache, Nginx and IIS installation, patching and configuration
- Participate in DR drills for the database tier and validate recovery procedures
- Maintain database runbooks, standard operating procedures and change documentation
- Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by supervisor
Requirements
- Relational databases — Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL
- Cloud-managed databases — AWS RDS and Azure SQL Database
- Database provisioning and lifecycle management — consistent, repeatable deployments
- Database patching and CVE management — lifecycle patching across all database platforms
- Performance tuning — query analysis, execution plan optimisation and index management
- Schema management — schema design support, object lifecycle and version control
- Database access management — user provisioning, role-based access control and privilege governance
- Database backup and restore — policy management, backup validation and restore procedures
- Replication and high availability — synchronous/asynchronous replication, failover and RPO management
- Database monitoring — performance metrics, capacity utilisation, alert management and trending
- Compliance and audit — database access auditing, activity monitoring and compliance reporting
- Middleware —Apache HTTP Server, Nginx and Microsoft IIS installation, configuration and lifecycle
- Configuration management — Ansible or equivalent for database and middleware automation
Interested applicants, please email your resume to Andre Chua Jing Ming
Email: andrechua@recruitexpress.com.sg
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