Cloud DBA: AWS, SQL Server + PostgreSQL/MySQL

Ascentis Sdn Bhd; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental

Education support

Medical

Parking

Vision card service

Smart phone

Courses

Travel benefit

Sports

Job summary

Ascentis Sdn Bhd is seeking a Database Administrator to manage and optimize databases across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, primarily on AWS. You will ensure high availability, security, and performance while collaborating with Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, and Support teams.

You will handle backups, migrations, tuning, and monitoring, with on-call support for critical incidents and maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in Database Administration (production or business-critical environments).
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL administration.
• Experience with database monitoring and performance troubleshooting.
• Understand SQL tuning, execution plans, indexing, statistics, locking, and resource utilization.
• Experience with backup, restore, recovery, migration, and replication.
• Experience administering databases on AWS, including Amazon RDS and EC2.
• Knowledge of High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and replication concepts.
• Familiarity with Windows Server and Linux administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain production and non-production Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL environments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, patch, and upgrade databases on AWS (RDS/EC2).
• Perform daily database health checks and monitor availability, backups, replication, and performance.
• Tune SQL queries and monitor CPU, memory, disk utilization, IOPS, connections, and wait statistics.
• Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, Security, and Support teams to resolve database issues.
• Plan and execute database migrations and AWS database migrations (DMS).
• Maintain database security, accounts, roles, permissions, authentication, encryption, auditing, and least-privilege access.
• Provide on-call support during critical incidents and planned maintenance.

Skills

Database administration

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computing

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS (RDS, EC2)

AWS DMS

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Ascentis Sdn Bhd is seeking a Database Administrator to manage and optimize databases across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, primarily on AWS. You will ensure high availability, security, and performance while collaborating with Application Development, Infrastructure, Security, and Support teams.

You will handle backups, migrations, tuning, and monitoring, with on-call support for critical incidents and maintenance activities.