Database Administrator
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Summary
Salt is hiring a Database Administrator on a 6-12 month renewable contract for a financial services client in Singapore, keeping mission-critical financial and investment database systems reliable, secure, and performant across hybrid on-prem/cloud environments. Key tech: Sybase ASE/IQ, SQL Server, Snowflake, NoSQL/Cosmos DB, Python/Perl/Java automation, and Azure/AWS/GCP.
Salt is looking to hire a Database Administrator for financial services client in Singapore for 6 to 12 months renewable contract role. The team is responsible for the reliability, stability, and performance of the financial systems.
Responsibilities:
- Engage in global operations and engineering strategy for mission-critical database platforms supporting the client's internal platform financial systems.
- Collaborate on innovation and automation to scale operations and reduce complexity across hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud).
- Champion performance optimization, security, and compliance, ensuring platforms meet evolving regulatory and business needs.
- Deep engagement in administration and engineering of OLTP, OLAP, data warehousing, and distributed NoSQL platforms.
- Ensure 24x7 availability and resiliency for global investment systems.
- Scale operations through advanced automation frameworks and custom toolsets.
- Leverage LLM tools including Windsurf, Copilot to improve monitoring and maintenance utilities in Python, Perl and Java
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices for database deployments and monitoring.
- Engage with infrastructure, application, and business teams across regions to deliver seamless service.
- Influence technology roadmaps and participate in architecture reviews.
Qualifications:
- Platforms: Sybase ASE/IQ, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake, highly available distributed NoSQL data storage platforms, Cosmos DB.
- Replication: Sybase Replication, MSSQL HA, HVR/Fivetran.
- Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP.
- Automation & DevOps: Python, Perl, Java, Go, Windsurf, Copilot, Ansible/AWX, Git, Azure DevOps.
- OS: Linux, Windows; advanced shell scripting and system performance analysis.
- Approach: Problem solver with a passion for automation, operational excellence, continuous learning, and data-driven decision-making.
- 4+ years in enterprise database administration & engineering is desirable, 2+ years in software engineering, LLM/AI are helpful
CEI No: R1659595 / EA No: 07C3147