Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

MindMerge Consulting; Petaling Jaya; Vor Ort; MYR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

MindMerge Consulting seeks an experienced Senior Database Administrator to configure, manage, and optimize enterprise database platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments.

The role focuses on ensuring database availability, performance, security, and scalability while leading HA/DR initiatives, upgrades, and modernization projects in a fast-paced enterprise setting.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5-7 years of Database Administration experience in enterprise production environments.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle/Tibero, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Strong knowledge of database administration, performance tuning, SQL optimization, backup & recovery, replication, clustering, HA, and DR.
• Experience with database installation, upgrades, patching, security hardening, and operational support.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
• Experience managing mission-critical databases and production incidents.

Aufgaben

• Administer, configure, and maintain enterprise database platforms to ensure availability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Perform database installation, upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and routine maintenance activities.
• Monitor and optimize database performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive improvements.
• Manage High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, and clustering solutions to support business continuity.
• Lead database migrations, upgrades, modernization initiatives, and capacity planning activities.
• Implement database security controls, hardening standards, auditing, and compliance requirements.
• Support and optimize cloud-based database platforms and services.
• Drive automation, standardization, and continuous improvement of database operations.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver stable and scalable database solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation, establish best practices and support critical production incidents when required.

Kenntnisse

Oracle/Tibero

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux/Unix

Scripting

HA/DR

Monitoring

Cloud (AWS)

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IT

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Jobbeschreibung

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia | Posted on 10/12/2026

• Assigned Recruiter(s) Karen Chan,Daesi Loh

Our client is a well known leading IT provider in Malaysia and currently looking for a Senior Database Administrator (DBA)in Department Information Technology. This role Reports to Manager-DBA, Technology.

Seeking an experienced Senior Database Administrator (DBA) toconfigure, manage, and optimize enterprise database platforms supportingbusiness-critical applications. The role is responsible for ensuring databaseavailability, performance, security, scalability, and resilience acrosson-premises and cloud environments. The successful candidate will lead database operations,performance tuning, High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR)initiatives, upgrades, automation, and modernization projects. This rolerequires strong technical expertise, analytical and problem-solving skills, andthe ability to support mission-critical systems in a fast-paced enterpriseenvironment.

The ideal candidate will work closely with application,infrastructure, and security teams to deliver reliable, secure, andhigh-performing database services aligned with business and operationalobjectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, andmaintain enterprise database platforms to ensure availability, performance,security, and reliability.
  
• Perform database installation,upgrades, patching, backup, recovery, and routine maintenance activities.
  
• Monitor and optimize databaseperformance, troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive improvements.
  
• Manage High Availability (HA),Disaster Recovery (DR), replication, and clustering solutions to supportbusiness continuity.
  
• Lead database migrations,upgrades, modernization initiatives, and capacity planning activities.
  
• Implement database securitycontrols, hardening standards, auditing, and compliance requirements.
  
• Support and optimize cloud-baseddatabase platforms and services.
  
• Drive automation, standardization,and continuous improvement of database operations.
  
• Collaborate with application,infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to deliver stable and scalabledatabase solutions.
  
• Maintain technical documentation,establish best practices and support critical production incidents whenrequired.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in ComputerScience, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  
• Minimum 5-7 years of DatabaseAdministration experience in enterprise production environments.
  
• Hands-on experience withOracle/Tibero, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
  
• Strong knowledge of databaseadministration, performance tuning, SQL optimization, backup & recovery,replication, clustering, High Availability (HA), and Disaster Recovery (DR).
  
• Experience with databaseinstallation, upgrades, patching, security hardening, and operational support.
  
• Strong Linux/Unix administrationand scripting skills.
  
• Experience managingmission-critical databases and production incidents.
• Strong analytical,troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills & Experience (Added Advantage)

• Experience with MongoDB or otherNoSQL databases.
  
• Experience with AWS databaseservices (RDS, Aurora, EC2, Backup).
  
• Exposure to cloud migration,database modernization, or automation initiatives.
  
• Experience with monitoring toolssuch as Grafana and Prometheus.
  
• Knowledge of database security,auditing, compliance, and encryption.

Professional Qualifications (Added Advantage)

• Experience in cloud migration,automation, or database modernization projects.
  
• Experience supporting HighAvailability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments.