Database Administrator

Job Description

• Responsible for keeping an organization’s database environments secure, stable, high-performing, and available for business-critical applications.
• Able to lead the design, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise database platforms while working closely with infrastructure, applications, security, and business teams.
• Manage, maintain, and support enterprise database systems across production, test, and development environments.
• Administer database platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other relevant technologies.
• Monitor database health, performance, storage, availability, and capacity.
• Perform database installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, and migration activities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents, outages, and performance issues.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures to protect business data.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexing, and overall database performance.
• Ensure database security, access control, encryption, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Support high-availability solutions such as clustering, replication, failover, and standby environments.
• Work with application and infrastructure teams to support system integration, deployments, and release activities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior DB administrators and project teams.
• Participate in on-call support, incident response, and problem management as required.