Database Administrator – High Availability, DR & Automation

JazzWorld; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Teknosys Islamabad seeks a Database Administrator to safeguard mission-critical databases across production applications. You will ensure high availability, performance, and rapid recovery during failures or outages.

You will design robust architectures, implement disaster recovery strategies, and collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to maintain reliable and scalable database environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 2–4 years hands-on experience in database administration with HA/DR setups.
• Strong skills in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, with exposure to NoSQL platforms.
• Proven ability in replication, clustering, failover, and disaster recovery planning with backup tools like pgBackRest or Percona XtraBackup.
• Experience automating DBA tasks using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform, plus monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or Nagios.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation discipline, and effective communication skills, with readiness for on‑call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis) databases.
• High availability and failover management through replication, clustering, and switchover procedures.
• Backup integrity, disaster recovery planning, and periodic DR drills to validate readiness.
• Performance optimization through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and capacity planning.
• Proactive monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis using Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, or similar tools.
• Security hardening, encryption, access control, and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration with development teams on schema design, query optimization, and release planning.
• Automation of DBA tasks and infrastructure provisioning using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Documentation of SOPs, runbooks, backup procedures, and recovery playbooks.

Skills

MySQL

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Oracle

NoSQL

Replication/HA

Query optimization

Automation (Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Zabbix

Nagios

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Teknosys Islamabad seeks a Database Administrator to safeguard mission-critical databases across production applications. You will ensure high availability, performance, and rapid recovery during failures or outages.

You will design robust architectures, implement disaster recovery strategies, and collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to maintain reliable and scalable database environments.