Senior Database Lead - HA/DR, Migrations & Modernization

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and administer DB2, Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL across Production, UAT and DR environments.

The role requires extensive experience in high-availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and complex migrations. You will drive platform modernization, enforce security controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years of enterprise database administration experience.
• 5+ years in a Senior DBA/Lead DBA or equivalent leadership role.
• Hands-on administration across DB2, Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL.
• Experience supporting 24x7 mission-critical production environments.
• Proven experience leading complex database migration projects.
• Experience with database consolidation and platform modernization programs.
• Experience with cross-platform database migrations and data center relocation projects.
• Experience supporting cloud adoption and application transformation programs.
• Experience ensuring data integrity, service availability and regulatory compliance during large-scale transformations.
• IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2; OCP; Oracle MySQL DBA; ITIL Foundation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database environments for high availability and performance across Production, UAT and DR.
• Perform health checks, tuning, housekeeping, capacity management and preventive maintenance.
• Plan and execute patching, upgrades, migrations, and platform modernization with minimal disruption.
• Manage HA/DR, backup and recovery, and readiness testing.
• Provide production support and lead major incident resolution with RCA.
• Ensure regulatory, audit and information security compliance for databases.
• Provide architecture reviews and design recommendations for DB-related projects.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure and security teams on database initiatives.
• Lead major database transformation initiatives including migrations and data center moves.
• Mentor junior team members and enforce best practices in database administration.

Skills

Database administration

Performance tuning

Incident management

Cross-platform migrations

Regulatory compliance

Cloud adoption

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

IBM DB2

Oracle Database

MS SQL Server

MySQL

IBM Licensing Matrix Tool (ILMT)

Job description

Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad is seeking a Senior Database Administrator to manage and administer DB2, Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL across Production, UAT and DR environments.

The role requires extensive experience in high-availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and complex migrations. You will drive platform modernization, enforce security controls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while mentoring junior staff.