Senior Database Administrator: Performance & Security

Vantage Financial Corporation; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage Financial Corporation in the Philippines is seeking an experienced database administrator to install, configure and maintain our database servers, ensuring optimal performance and security. The role focuses on database tuning, backups, recovery and incident handling to meet SLA expectations.

You will monitor, migrate, and optimize databases, document procedures, and collaborate with development and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Understanding of distributed computing architectures and client/server models.
• Ability to identify problems, analyze causes and implement solutions with urgency.
• Anticipates risks and develops contingency plans.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates and performs server install procedures per project.
• Creates and maintains databases per requirements and security policies.
• Converts or migrates databases for upgrades, recovery, or relocation.
• Documents setup and communicates server availability.
• Tunes database systems for performance improvements.
• Monitors DB activities and slow queries.
• Monitors locks, resource contention and deadlocks.
• Notifies application teams of findings and optimizations.
• Provides root-cause analysis for outages.
• Implements backups and DR procedures as required.
• Collaborates with PM/Networks/Teams on DB environments.

Skills

Distributed computing

Client/Server

Windows

Unix

Problem solving

English fluency

Self-motivation

Job description

Vantage Financial Corporation in the Philippines is seeking an experienced database administrator to install, configure and maintain our database servers, ensuring optimal performance and security. The role focuses on database tuning, backups, recovery and incident handling to meet SLA expectations.

You will monitor, migrate, and optimize databases, document procedures, and collaborate with development and operations teams.