Database Administrator

Ascendion; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 679,000 - 987,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion in Singapore is seeking a hands-on Database Administrator to support MS SQL Server and MongoDB environments in production. This role emphasizes database stability, incident recovery, performance tuning, disaster recovery readiness, and safe production changes.

You will partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to ensure high availability, data integrity, and rapid restoration. The role offers exposure across relational and NoSQL platforms and opportunities to grow in

Qualifications

• Production experience with MS SQL Server in mission-critical environments.
• Direct MongoDB administration experience in production.
• Experience with high availability, backups, and recovery strategies.
• Ability to troubleshoot performance and blocking issues in live systems.
• Experience handling production incidents and change management.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 production support for MS SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Investigate outages, failover issues, blocking, deadlocks and slow queries.
• Support Always On Availability Groups and MongoDB replica sets.
• Monitor replication, cluster health and performance metrics.
• Maintain backups and perform restores, point-in-time recovery.
• Assist with data patches, migrations and production deployments.

Skills

MS SQL Server

MongoDB

Production DB Admin

High availability

Incident recovery

Job description

We are hiring a database administrator to support highly available MS SQL Server and MongoDB environments in Singapore.

This is a hands‑on production operations role focused on database stability, incident recovery, performance, disaster recovery readiness and safe production changes.

You will work closely with infrastructure, systems, software, security and compliance teams to support secured, high‑availability systems where database reliability, data integrity and recovery readiness directly affect service continuity.

The role offers genuine exposure across both relational and NoSQL database platforms, along with the opportunity to strengthen your experience in high availability, disaster recovery, production incident management and cross‑layer troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Provide L2 and L3 production support for MS SQL Server and MongoDB.

Investigate and resolve database outages, failover issues, blocking, deadlocks, slow queries and storage‑related performance problems.

Support MS SQL Server Always On Availability Groups and MongoDB replica sets.

Monitor replication, cluster health, failover readiness and database performance.

Maintain full, differential and transaction‑log backup processes.

Perform database restores, point‑in‑time recovery and recovery validation.

Support data patches, data seeding, application releases and database migrations.

Perform SQL Server patching, cumulative updates and planned maintenance.

Required Skills

Demonstrated experience in production database administration.

Recent, direct experience administering MS SQL Server in production.

Experience across most of the following MSSQL areas: Always On Availability Groups, high availability and failover, backup and recovery, performance tuning, execution‑plan analysis, index optimisation, blocking and deadlock troubleshooting, and SQL Server patching and cumulative updates.

Experience handling Severity 1, P1 or equivalent critical production incidents.

Experience supporting production deployments, data changes or database migrations.

Ascendion is a leader in AI‑powered software engineering, helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with Global 2000 clients across North America, APAC, and Europe to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI™ (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth. Learn more at ascendion.com.

Ascendion is a leader in AI‑powered software engineering, helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with Global 2000 clients across North America, APAC, and Europe to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI™ (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth. Learn more at ascendion.com.