Senior Database Administrator

Bluebirdgroup; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 300,000,000 - 540,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluebirdgroup is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to design, build, and maintain robust database monitoring with intelligent alerting. You will proactively analyze slow queries, advise engineering teams, and manage growth through partitioning or sharding while ensuring zero data loss during failovers.

Responsibilities include leading a 24/7 on-call rotation, driving post-mortems for systemic improvements, and enforcing data security and backup/recovery procedures.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DBA experience in large-scale, high-traffic production environments.
• Expertise in SQL and major DB engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL.
• Experience with failover, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime migrations.
• Strong communication and ability to challenge engineering teams on performance and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for database metrics with auto-alerting.
• Monitor and analyze slow queries; provide recommendations to improve query structure and app logic.
• Manage cardinality, indexing, and partitioning/sharding for growing tables.
• Own replication and zero data-loss auto-failover processes.

Skills

SQL proficiency

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Microsoft SQL Server

NoSQL

Disaster recovery

Zero-downtime migrations

On-call leadership

Cybersecurity practices

Documentation

Job description

About the job Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain monitoring systems for critical database metrics, equipped with intelligent auto-alerting mechanisms.
• Proactively monitor and analyze slow queries—beyond adding missing indexes, provide actionable recommendations to engineering teams to improve query structure and application logic.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of cardinality, efficient index utilization, and the ability to manage rapidly growing tables through effective partitioning or sharding strategies.
• Take full ownership of database replication mechanisms, ensuring seamless auto-failover processes with zero data loss during disruptions.
• Proactively conduct capacity planning to prevent unexpected infrastructure cost spikes and avoid sudden performance degradation due to data growth.
• Lead and uphold a 24/7 on-call rotation culture within the DBA team to ensure immediate response to production incidents.
• Drive a strong post-mortem culture following every incident, focusing on long-term systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure data security, proper access control management, and regularly tested backup and recovery procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA) in large-scale, high-traffic production environments.
• Strong technical expertise in SQL, with in-depth knowledge of database engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, and others.
• Proven experience in handling failover scenarios, disaster recovery, and zero-downtime database migrations.
• Strong, assertive communication skills with the ability to challenge engineering teams when proposed query structures may negatively impact database performance or cost efficiency.
• High level of discipline in maintaining operational documentation and adhering to cybersecurity standards and best practices.
• Willing to work from office (WFO) at Mampang Blue Bird Head Office.