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DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

MyCareersFuture96,520 open roles

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SGD 6,000 – SGD 8,000 a month
Where
West, Singapore
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Job Summary:

The Database Engineer is responsible for supporting database migration and operational activities for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL environments. This role contributes to database assessment, migration execution, validation, backup/restore, and post-migration performance tuning.

In addition, the role operates within a managed services environment, ensuring database platforms remain available, performant, and secure through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.

Key Responsibilities

Database Administration & Operations

- Administer and maintain Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and other enterprise database platforms.

- Support AWS database services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and related managed database services where applicable.

- Support additional database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB, MongoDB, and other NoSQL platforms where required.

- Perform database provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, housekeeping, and routine maintenance activities.

- Monitor database availability, capacity, performance, health, and operational alerts.

- Manage database user access, permissions, roles, and basic security administration.

- Maintain database standards, operational procedures, runbooks, and support documentation.

Backup, Recovery & Availability

- Manage database backup, restore, and recovery processes to ensure data integrity and availability.

- Monitor backup jobs and investigate failed, missed, or delayed backup activities.

- Perform restoration testing and support recovery validation activities.

- Support high availability and disaster recovery configurations such as clustering, replication, log shipping, AlwaysOn, and failover arrangements where applicable.

- Participate in disaster recovery testing, failover activities, and operational readiness checks.

Technical Support & Incident Management

- Resolve database-related incidents and service requests within agreed SLA timelines under general supervision.

- Proactively monitor database environments to detect and resolve issues early.

- Investigate, analyze, and troubleshoot database connectivity, performance, availability, replication, job failure, backup, and access-related incidents.

- Maintain accurate and timely updates in ticketing systems with investigation findings, actions taken, and resolution details.

- Escalate complex or critical issues to senior engineers, Technical Leads, vendors, or platform owners where required.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization

- Monitor database performance using native database tools and enterprise monitoring platforms.

- Identify slow-running queries, blocking, deadlocks, indexing issues, capacity constraints, and resource bottlenecks.

- Support basic to intermediate database tuning and optimization activities.

- Work with application, infrastructure, cloud, network, security, backup, and storage teams to investigate performance-related issues.

- Recommend improvements to database stability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Service Delivery & Process Compliance

- Ensure adherence to ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, Change, Request, and Knowledge Management.

- Support, track, and document database change implementation activities.

- Contribute to continuous service improvement and operational optimization.

- Participate in audit support, operational reviews, disaster recovery testing, and compliance-related activities.

- Prepare and maintain SOPs, runbooks, operational checklists, and knowledge articles.

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

- Work closely with application teams, infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, network engineers, security teams, and service delivery teams.

- Support cross-technology troubleshooting involving database, server, storage, backup, network, cloud, and applicationlayers.

- Communicate effectively with stakeholders during incidents, changes, maintenance windows, and service reviews.

- Share knowledge, document solutions, and contribute to knowledge base improvements.

- Support junior engineers and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Required Skills & Experience

- 3-6 years of hands-on experience in relational database administration, preferably in enterprise or managed services environments.

- Hands-on experience with:

*Microsoft SQL Server administration

*Azure SQL Database and/or Azure SQL Managed Instance

*AWS database services such as Amazon RDS or Aurora

*MySQL and/or PostgreSQL administration

*Database backup, restore, and recovery operations

*Performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and basic tuning

- Exposure to other database platforms such as Oracle, MariaDB, MongoDB, or other NoSQL technologies is advantageous.

- Good understanding of database security, access control, and permission management.

- Familiarity with high availability and disaster recovery concepts such as clustering, replication, log shipping, Always On, failover, and DR testing.

- Experience supporting enterprise database environments, operational support, migration, upgrade, or modernization activities.

- Ability to troubleshoot issues across database, application, server, storage, backup, network, and cloud layers.

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