- Position: Database Administrator
- Experience: 5+ Years
- Role: Managed IT Services / Infrastructure Support
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Location: Remote

Position Overview We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) with 5+ years of experience in database administration, production database operations, performance management, security, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery activities.

The DBA will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, security, integrity, and recoverability of enterprise databases . The role will work closely with the System Administrator, Application, Infrastructure, Security, and Development teams to maintain stable and resilient database environments.

A key responsibility will be collaborating with the System Administrator on backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure-related database operations .

Key Responsibilities

1. Database Administration and Operations

- Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database servers and database management systems.
- Perform day-to-day administration of production, staging, development, and test database environments.
- Monitor database availability, health, capacity, and performance.
- Manage database instances, databases, users, roles, permissions, and configurations.
- Ensure databases remain highly available and meet defined operational SLAs.
- Perform routine maintenance, housekeeping, and database health checks.
- Support database migrations, upgrades, and technology refresh initiatives.

2. Database Performance and Optimization

- Monitor and analyze database performance, resource utilization, and capacity.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Analyze execution plans and optimize SQL queries, indexes, stored procedures, and database configurations.
- Perform indexing and database maintenance activities.
- Monitor CPU, memory, storage, I/O, connections, and transaction performance.
- Establish performance baselines and proactively identify potential issues.

3. Backup and Recovery

- Design, implement, and monitor database backup strategies.
- Ensure regular full, incremental/differential, and transaction-log backups, as applicable.
- Monitor backup jobs and investigate failures.
- Perform database restoration and recovery activities when required.
- Regularly validate backups through restore testing.
- Maintain appropriate backup retention and recovery procedures.
- Work closely with the System Administrator to ensure backup infrastructure and storage are aligned with database recovery requirements.

4. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

- Support the development and maintenance of Database Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.
- Participate in DR planning, implementation, testing, and periodic exercises.
- Support database replication, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
- Ensure databases meet defined RPO and RTO requirements.
- Participate in business continuity and disaster-recovery drills.
- Document recovery procedures and maintain up-to-date DR runbooks.
- Coordinate with System Administration, Infrastructure, Network, Security, and Application teams during DR events.

5. High Availability





- Implement and maintain appropriate database high-availability solutions.
- Monitor replication, clustering, mirroring, Always On, log shipping, or equivalent technologies depending on the database platform.
- Perform planned failover and failback activities.
- Investigate database availability incidents and minimize service disruption.
- Ensure appropriate redundancy for critical database workloads.

6. Security and Access Management

- Manage database security, authentication, authorization, roles, and privileges.
- Implement the principle of least privilege for database access.
- Review and manage privileged database accounts.
- Support database access provisioning and deprovisioning processes.
- Monitor database security events and suspicious activities.
- Support vulnerability remediation and database security hardening.
- Ensure database configurations align with organizational security policies.

7. Monitoring and Incident Management

- Implement and maintain database monitoring and alerting.
- Proactively identify database failures, capacity issues, performance degradation, and other operational risks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents and service requests.
- Participate in incident, problem, and change-management processes.
- Perform root-cause analysis for recurring database issues.
- Maintain incident records and technical documentation.

8. Capacity and Storage Management

- Monitor database growth, storage consumption, and resource utilization.
- Forecast future database capacity requirements.
- Coordinate with System Administrators and Infrastructure teams for storage expansion.
- Implement database archiving and housekeeping strategies.
- Identify opportunities to optimize storage utilization and database performance.

9. Database Upgrade and Maintenance

- Plan and execute database version upgrades, patches, and security updates.
- Perform testing and validation before production implementation.
- Coordinate maintenance windows with application and infrastructure teams.
- Ensure appropriate rollback and recovery procedures are available for major changes.
- Maintain database configuration and version documentation.

10. Development and Application Support

- Work with application and development teams to resolve database-related issues.
- Support application deployments and database schema changes.
- Review database scripts, stored procedures, queries, and migration scripts.
- Assist development teams with database performance optimization.
- Support database integration and data migration activities.
- Provide technical guidance on database architecture and best practices.

11. Documentation and Compliance

- Maintain database architecture, configuration, backup, recovery, and operational documentation.
- Develop and maintain SOPs, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
- Maintain database inventory and dependency information.




- Provide evidence and support for internal and external audits.
- Ensure database operations comply with organizational security and compliance requirements.

Required Technical Skills

- Strong experience in database administration and production operations .
- Expertise in at least one major enterprise database platform, such as:

o Microsoft SQL Server o Oracle Database o PostgreSQL o MySQL/MariaDB
- Solid SQL knowledge and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Database backup and recovery.
- Database performance tuning and optimization.
- High availability and disaster recovery.
- Database security and access management.
- Database monitoring and capacity management.
- Database patching and upgrades.
- Data migration and database maintenance.

Infrastructure Enterprise IT Knowledge Working knowledge of the following will be advantageous:

- Windows and/or Linux Server administration.
- Storage and SAN/NAS concepts.
- Virtualization platforms.
- Cloud database services.
- Networking fundamentals.
- Active Directory / Entra ID integration.
- Monitoring and enterprise backup solutions.
- ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management.

Backup DR Collaboration The DBA will work closely with the System Administrator to:

- Define and maintain database backup schedules.
- Ensure backup infrastructure supports database recovery requirements.
- Coordinate backup storage and retention.
- Conduct periodic restoration testing.
- Maintain DR infrastructure and database recovery procedures.
- Execute planned and emergency database failover/failback.
- Validate RPO/RTO compliance.
- Participate in periodic DR and business-continuity exercises.

Experience and Competencies

- 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database Engineer.
- Proven experience supporting production database environments .
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Experience working in 24×7 or SLA-driven enterprise environments is preferred.
- Strong understanding of database availability, performance, security, backup, and recovery.
- Ability to work collaboratively with System Administration, Infrastructure, Security, Application, and Development teams.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Ability to respond effectively to critical database incidents and production outages.

Preferred Certifications Certifications in relevant database technologies will be an advantage, such as:

- Microsoft SQL Server certifications
- Oracle Database certifications
- PostgreSQL certifications
- AWS/Azure/GCP database certifications
- ITIL certification
- SAP S4 HANA

Key Deliverables The DBA will be responsible for:

- Stable and highly available database operations.
- Proactive database performance monitoring and optimization.
- Reliable and tested database backup and recovery.
- Effective database disaster-recovery capability.
- Secure database access and configuration
- Timely resolution of database incidents.
- Accurate database documentation and operational runbooks.
- Capacity planning and proactive infrastructure coordination.
- Successful database upgrades, migrations, and maintenance activities.

Interested candidates may send their resume to [email protected].

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