Senior Database Administrator
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Summary
Senior Database Administrator in Kuala Lumpur who administers, tunes, and secures enterprise database platforms (Oracle/Tibero, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), manages HA/DR and migrations, and supports AWS cloud database services like RDS and Aurora, with automation and scripting on Linux.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, configure, and maintain enterprise database platforms to ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability
- Perform database installation, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and routine maintenance
- Monitor and optimize database performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement SQL and database tuning improvements
- Manage High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, and clustering solutions to ensure business continuity
- Lead database migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and capacity planning activities
- Implement database security controls, hardening, auditing, encryption, and compliance measures
- Support and optimize cloud-based database platforms and services, including AWS database solutions
- Develop scripts and automation to improve operational efficiency, standardization, and database management
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver reliable and scalable database solutions
- Maintain technical documentation, support critical production incidents, and drive continuous service improvement
Person Specifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of hands-on Database Administration experience in enterprise production environments
- Experience with Oracle/Tibero, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL database platforms
- Strong knowledge of database administration, SQL optimization, performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, clustering, HA, and DR
- Experience in database installation, upgrades, patching, security hardening, and production support
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills
- Familiarity with AWS database services, including RDS, Aurora, EC2, and AWS Backup
- Exposure to MongoDB or other NoSQL databases, cloud migration, and database modernization is an advantage
- Knowledge of database monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus is desirable
- Relevant database, cloud, or infrastructure certifications are advantageous
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to support mission-critical systems
Vendor submissions - 12 months