Senior SQL & Azure Database Engineer

Johnson Matthey; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EPF 15%

Life Insurance

Medical coverage for dependents

Competitive bonus

Job summary

Johnson Matthey is seeking a Senior Database Engineer in Malaysia to design, implement, and support SQL Server environments across on‑premises and Azure. You will manage lifecycles, upgrades, migrations, and HA/DR planning while enabling Power BI-backed analytics and automation through PowerShell and T‑SQL.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of MS SQL Server experience in enterprise settings, with strong skills in Azure SQL, AGs, backups, security, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on MS SQL Server administration in enterprise environments.
• Experience across on-premises and Azure SQL services (Azure SQL DB/MI/VM).
• Strong T-SQL, PowerShell scripting and automation capabilities.
• Knowledge of HA/DR, backups, security patching, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support SQL Server on‑prem and Azure.
• Manage lifecycle: install, patch, upgrades, migrations, capacity planning.
• Administer Azure SQL DB/MI and SQL Server on Azure VMs.
• Implement HA/DR via AGs, clustering, backups and recovery planning.
• Tune performance, indexing, execution plans, health checks.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, and consolidation with minimal disruption.
• Support Power BI backend and SQL data sources for reports.
• Develop automation with PowerShell, T‑SQL, SQL Agent, and Azure tools.
• Monitor health, availability, capacity, and SLA adherence.
• Ensure security controls: patching, encryption, auditing, access control.
• Collaborate with infra, cloud, app, network, backup, and security teams.
• On-call rotations and incident/problem/change management support.
• Maintain documentation and mentor team members.

Skills

SQL Server admin

Azure SQL

High Availability

PowerShell scripting

Performance tuning

Upgrades & migrations

Azure Monitor

Security & encryption

Power BI backend

T-SQL scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SolarWinds DPA

Azure Monitor

SSMS

Veeam

Job description

Johnson Matthey is seeking a Senior Database Engineer in Malaysia to design, implement, and support SQL Server environments across on‑premises and Azure. You will manage lifecycles, upgrades, migrations, and HA/DR planning while enabling Power BI-backed analytics and automation through PowerShell and T‑SQL.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of MS SQL Server experience in enterprise settings, with strong skills in Azure SQL, AGs, backups, security, and performance tuning.