Database Administrator

Idataraya Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Idataraya Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a database administrator to look after live systems’ databases, focusing on performance, backups, and a tested recovery path.

You will work with engineers to tune queries, plan migrations on live data, and ensure access controls and data integrity for production environments.

Qualifications

• Production database administration experience with at least one relational engine.
• Ability to read an execution plan and tune queries.
• Discipline about backups, retention and access control.
• Care with migrations on data that cannot be re-created.

Responsibilities

• Manage production databases: performance, capacity, patching and access.
• Own backup and recovery, and test the recovery.
• Tune queries with the engineers rather than at them.
• Plan and run schema migrations against live data.

Skills

Query tuning

Execution plan reading

Backups

Recovery testing

Schema migrations

Performance optimization

Access control

Job description

You look after the databases behind live systems: performance, backups, and a recovery path you have actually tested. These hold clinical and financial records.

What you will do

• Manage production databases: performance, capacity, patching and access.
• Own backup and recovery, and test the recovery.
• Tune queries with the engineers rather than at them.
• Plan and run schema migrations against live data.

What you will bring

• Production database administration experience with at least one relational engine.
• Query tuning skills, and the ability to read an execution plan.
• Discipline about backups, retention and access control.
• Care with migrations on data that cannot be re-created.